Now for some flowers : - )

Photos by Matt Ball 2/25/2014

Coulter's Hibiscus (Hibiscus coulteri) on the way out (closed) and on the way back (open). In the Mallow family.

 These delicate beauties are, along with agaves, in the Asparagus family. Blue Dicks (Dichelostemma capitatum ssp. pauciflorum).