It's the end of April already. Feeling low today, but let me publish this entry I drafted last week.
Simply speaking, I've been going through a tough time with dermatitis (just use this general word for all of the crazy stages I've been going through over the last 3 months), insomnia, severe hair loss, other personal issues. - If you have been there, you would understand how it tortures people physically, mentally, and psychologically, no matter how you try to make your peace with them... The condition has taken away much of my freedom and convenience, for months.
But once in a blue moon, when it was any better, I immediately took the chance to go out and enjoy spring... even though I knew after exposed to heat, wind, dust..., the condition would be aggravated when back home... It has been a difficult time for me, a long story to tell, but not in this entry - I just mention a little darkness to cast some light on the background of this entry.
I cherish these photos and these moments - some of the beautiful and pure moments that I managed to afford in such a dark time of my life.
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Photo credit: my husband & I
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Spring here is so inviting when flowers, young buds, green hills, golden meadows, and carpets of wildflowers are accessible to everyone. Flowers giggling with delight along the streets, flowers blooming with glee in every garden, flowers painting picturesque landscapes to anything from a normal freeway shoulder, a winding ramp, a quiet hill, to a deserted plot that is about to be leveled...
So, dear my journal readers :), if you do not live here and love to see it, let me share with you some hương đồng cỏ "ngoại" that I captured on this photo journey...
These flamboyant flowers blooming into immense rivers of magenta. I've seen these many times but still feel lost in its beauty. I don't get any good quality photos now. Anyway, I've got their name : Ice plant or Sea Fig. Save some photos for next year :D.
A beautiful day woven of grass, flowers, sunshine, and more...
This sunny flower looks like a wild sunflower, but the leaf shape is different, so I google it and find out the name: Mule's Ears
Lovely Pink ladies - Pink evening primrose
Flaming California poppies. Love the cute shape and the feathery petals. I had a poppy on my hand and soon its petals started to fall off one after one. I didn't know they are that delicate.
Fields of gold
Last March,
when on top of a sunny freeway bridge, I caught sight of a vast golden field of flowers from afar. We took an exit to find where it was, then we both gawked with wonder to see this flowery plot of land right in the middle of a city.
What a nice surprise to run into this in a residential area. This is amazing, just like a dream!
But they are going to level this land for some new building .... :(
As April comes...
Along a busy freeway,
or on many quiet and sunny hills,
....flowers springing up the landscapes...
The thrill and excitement of following golden patches on the hills to have a closer look of these meadows are just as beautiful as the flowers themselves.
Waterfalls of flowers
Creepers and vines on freeway walls also magically flow into large waterfalls of flowers.
and more...
There are more to say but I don't know how to put it. Just say that I publish this entry thinking of my faithful readers :) Hope these photos bring you a little spring ...
"Yesterday - Today - Tomorrow
Each day is as special as you want it to be."
