We took a walk around our village – Sykia – yesterday.

There’s a tremendous profusion of wildflowers in early Spring, with native vegetation taking advantage of cooler weather and moisture in the soil.

The train stopped running through Sykia in 2008, and the tracksides now present wildflowers a place to strut their stuff.

We’re missing the Redbuds in the mountains this year, so we’ve taken to calling these trees Redbuds. Google identifies them as Judas trees.

They can flower directly from the trunk.

Orange blossom. Just as one crop is falling from the trees, another is getting started. There are two crops of oranges and lemons each year.

Walking on pine needles.

This summer, kids and grownups will be playing on the water in these boats. In the spring, they provide a backdrop for the wildflowers pushing through the beach pebbles.