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Good Monday morning.

Over the weekend, you may have missed the news that even after the Trump administration officially rescinded its policy of separating migrant families at the border, more than 200 children were taken from parents and other relatives, and that the state’s taxpayers will shoulder $1.8 million in legal costs from sexual harassment investigations in the California Legislature over the course of last year and January.

But there will be plenty of time this week to think about weighty issues affecting our state. Instead, we thought it’d be nice to ease back with a visual walk-through of wildflowers.

Recently, I wrote about how fires followed by heavy rains were likely to spur super blooms across Southern California this year, and how you can see some wildflowers for yourself.

Casey Schreiner, the founder and editor of the website Modern Hiker, told me that the best way to see a peak wildflower bloom is to do your research and be flexible.