Spring is Here, I Hear

PHOTO REFLECTIONS

Spring (Photo – Reg Green)

One morning this week at around 7, I walked through a small cloud of gnats on a trail through the Angeles National Forest.

By Reg Green

It’s the first time I’ve seen the pesky little creatures since last fall. A few minutes later, I came across a single stem of delicate yellow flowers that wasn’t visible the day before.

Two bluebirds burst out of a grove of trees, one pretending to flee, the other in hot pursuit, their startling bright blue looking unreal against the preponderant dark green. It’s true that the signs of spring have been clear for weeks in town but at three thousand feet new life is peeping out much more skeptically. That’s smart. They’ve been fooled before. The transition from winter is milder here than almost anywhere else in the US and it’s never certain when that transition has occurred.

Still, all over the San Gabriel mountains all that pent-up lust for life is beginning to burst out. It’s an exciting time to be outdoors