A bird's nest

This bird's nest fell -- empty -- out of the big pine in our backyard.

Palo verde tree

Parkinsonia microphylla, the yellow palo verde or foothill palo verde tree, also known as Cercidium microphyllum.  Sometimes it is called simply paloverde.

This tree is becoming very popular as a street tree here in north Fullerton, presumably for its drought-tolerance, as well as its cheerful yellow flowers. The leaves are curiously like pine needles.  This particular tree is growing on a bare patch in a micro-park, and carpets the ground beneath it with the blossoms in spring.

A new tree

A new tree "planted" on a phone company box.  Someone with a sense of humor lives nearby!

Spring border

This is the border we saw earlier when the cornflowers were the main feature.  Now the pinks and reds have come into the fore.  There are pink and orange poppies, rose campion (Lychnis coronaria) and red sweet william (Dianthus barbatus), with white alyssum and still a few blue cornflowers here and there.

An unidentified moth