It is March , it is Spring and it is Perris. You could not tell unless you come out and look around. New buds coming from dry and lifeless branches. Barren fields become meadows which are now heaven for sheep herds. These fields of wild Mustard are along Goetz and Ethanac roads near Perris Valley Sky Diving area and are clearly the signs of beauty and advent of Spring .
Mustard is a plant of Brassicaceae Family which also includes cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kohlrabi, brussel sprouts, radish, turnips. Wild mustard which has become invasive weed here but still its tiny yellow flowers are so abundant that the fields seem like covered with gold. Just amazing .
Mustard plant with beautiful blossom
Mustard plants with yellow blossoms
Mustard field with sky divers in the background
Yellow patches of gold dust
Mustard flowers first symbol of spring and abundance
Fields of gold
Pleasure for eyes
Thing of beauty ,joy forever
To describe my feelings about these beauties and joy of nature and how change brings the message of hope,here is Robert Frost’s Poem:
A Boundless Moment
Far in the maples, pale, but not a ghost?
He stood there bringing March against his thought,
And yet too ready to believe the most.
“Oh, that’s the Paradise-in-bloom,” I said;
And truly it was fair enough for flowers
had we but in us to assume in march
Such white luxuriance of May for ours.
We stood a moment so in a strange world,
Myself as one his own pretense deceives;
And then I said the truth (and we moved on).
A young beech clinging to its last year’s leaves.”
Peace be upon us.