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The spring sun has started to warm the soil. I'm already having visions of eating ripe, luscious tomatoes later in the season.

“I love to see the changes of the seasons at the Randall Morgan Preserve,” said Tanya Baxter, Land Steward for the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County, which owns the 189-acre parcel between Scotts Valley and the San Lorenzo Valley.

Taking a walk is always a breathtaking experience at this time of year. Witness the cobalt blue flowers nearly covering a ceanothus, or a stand of Dicentra formosa, with pink, bell-shaped flowers backlit in the spring sunlight. These are just two of our local native plants. Everywhere you look, nature is beginning the season fresh with anticipation and promise.