Jacarandas in bloom

Photo by Patrick Jones. Jacaranda blooms in LA. 31 May 2017.

At the end of May I was in the Los Angeles office for meetings. My visit overlapped with the burst of purple from the Jacaranda trees in Playa Vista and Santa Monica. In my eleven years of visiting and living in Los Angeles I couldn't remember seeing so much purple. Maybe I did not pay enough attention while we were living there, or my visits back to the office never aligned with the blooms. In any case, I couldn't miss them on this trip. A beautiful sight.

Photo by Patrick Jones. Jacaranda blooms on the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica.