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Kingbird Pond Trail crosses a dry area studded with ceanothus shrubs

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00259-kingbird-pond-trail-8.jpg Kingbird Pond Trail dips down to a dry (in summer) drainage, then rises up the other sideThumbnailsI walk around a bend and here it is: Kingbird PondKingbird Pond Trail dips down to a dry (in summer) drainage, then rises up the other sideThumbnailsI walk around a bend and here it is: Kingbird PondKingbird Pond Trail dips down to a dry (in summer) drainage, then rises up the other sideThumbnailsI walk around a bend and here it is: Kingbird PondKingbird Pond Trail dips down to a dry (in summer) drainage, then rises up the other sideThumbnailsI walk around a bend and here it is: Kingbird PondKingbird Pond Trail dips down to a dry (in summer) drainage, then rises up the other sideThumbnailsI walk around a bend and here it is: Kingbird Pond

Ceanothus bushes stay green all summer, through the drought months, and can put on an incredibly vivid and fragrant flower show for a few weeks in the spring. The whole bush will become white or blue, depending on the flower colour.

I'd love to see this area at that time.