April 25, 2019 – An Interlude from Construction

By Ted Wright | April 25, 2019

One of the things we love about being out at Modjeska is that the landscape is a constantly changing show and always interesting to look at. All of the winter rains that delayed both the grading above the house and the construction of the retaining walls gave us a better than the usual wildflower displays. The pictures below provide some sense of this.

Picture 1 – The hillside behind the house covered with wildflowers.
Lupines behind the deer fencing just above the solar panels.
Picture 2 – One of the flowers that grow in profusion are these lupines.
Picture 3 – A closer view.
Picture 4 – Another are the blue dicks (Dichelostemma capitatum). The yellow in the background is wild mustard, an invasive found on many of the hillsides.
Picture 5 – Every year some of the agaves on the hillsides also put on their show.
Picture 6 – Then there are the California poppies, which Nina has been successfully encouraging.
Picture 7 — This year was a great year for our fruit trees. This is one of the plum trees putting on a show.
Picture 8 – The flowers on this grapefruit tree not only look pretty, but they scent the air across the hillside — and, next winter, the grapefruits will be wonderful.
Picture 10 – Less than 2 weeks later the growing almonds are visible.
Picture 9 – These almond blossoms are gorgeous miniature flowers.
Picture 11 – In several weeks this scary looking plant will be sending up flower buds on long stalks that we will cut off and eat — they are artichokes.
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