blooming

Several yellow city street sweepers drove up and down Los Angeles Street in front of the federal courthouse, between blooming purple jacarandas and scores of police vehicles from various SoCal cities.

It is believed to be a host plant to more than a dozen butterflies and moths in their larval stage and it starts blooming in the late winter, when wildflowers are still trying to awake.

Their plot to dig holes in their parents’ love garden entangles them in the tendrils of their own blooming feelings.

By late April, when the roses start blooming, they’ve already been pruned and fertilized, but Bifano is always on the prowl for any signs of disease or pests.

The event is timed with the blooming of the lake’s iconic lotus flowers, which was once the largest outside Asia.