CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge

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That is very pretty!

I'm a bit challenged. They built a very nice new interchange near my office as part of the perpetual 405 Freeway expansion.
They landscaped the on-ramp from the boulevard in front of my office to the new widened section of freeway and it's an explosion of pink carpet with all of the flowers right now. Only problem is that I'd need to stop traffic on the ramp to get off and take a picture... don't think that would go well.

There could always be worse headlines on the Evening L.A. News.

Yeah, but I don't want to be in the headlines for that. Or for anything, really.

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Don’t know what these trees are, but there’s a row of them for the last block of my commute. They put out these pretty pink flowers for a few weeks then puke them onto the street in a sticky mass.

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According to Google Lens, they are the Pink Trumpet Tree (Handroanthus Impetiginosus).

Often called in SoCal the "Pink Tree".

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Thanks for the info GO!
I’ve called them Pink Trees since I was a kid.
Didn’t realize I was a horticulturalist.

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This was a big weekend in our town, and I was hoping to get a picture of it with my CB1100 to commemorate the occasion. The iconic fountain in the middle of our town plaza was just re-dedicated following reconstruction after this happened last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brln_jwB2sU

There's a rose garden around the fountain which is nice, but probably not yet in full bloom. I was hoping for more flowers, and to get my bike closer to them, but there was a festival and a car show in the way. Still, nice to have our fountain and rose garden back.

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Figured I’d submit one more for the month. Don’t know what kind of tree this is, but the trunk is dark orange and gnarled. No leaves yet, just intense red blooms all over it.

It’s on one of my afternoon walking routes that I hadn’t taken for a while until today, when I saw the red flowers all over it.

I dig it because one part of the trunk leans over the sidewalk and just grazes my hat as I walk under it. Sort of like a feeler gauge. I can turn around and look at it and think “Huh, that’s how tall I am.”

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Nice Gone.

Does a painted red curb mean no stopping/no parking?

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Yup, it’s commercial area, mostly traversed by trucks.

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From today's ride

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Nice! We’ve had some beautiful fields of yellow flowers out here this spring. Soon to disappear but very nice while we’ve got ‘em.