White Dickhead Flowers at the Wildflowers Loop Trail

I first encountered blue dicks at the Santa Rosa Plateau in Murrieta about three years ago. Since then, I have always stopped to stare at blue dicks. I wouldn't dare smell them. Today, I saw a white one. And I wouldn't dare call them white dicks either. Not that I am trying to be politically correct as expected from an aspiring San Diego Canyoneer. I would never think of any flower as a white dick. 
I returned to the Wildflower Loop trail with my bike after the hike led by Ken Kugel at the Ramona Grasslands Preserve. Elana, Kate, Michael, John and Ken are not really into wild flowers. Blue dicks and white dickheads are to them,
one and the same!
Mount Woodson blends into the horizon 
like a part of the Highland Valley area of Ramona where the Ramona Grasslands Preserve sits. I lean my bike on either a chamise chaparral or a buckwheat foliage. It's one or the other and only a San Diego Canyoneer can tell. 
More blue dicks and I still stop and stare at them. Might as well. They only come out in spring. The trail is like a gay pride parade. Very colorful!  I look for more white dickheads. I fell off my bike and got up as soon as I could. Damn white dickheads!
A bigger manzanita fruit but not a manzana catches my attention. Too bad, I had no one to ask what the fuck it is. 
I have take more hikes and nature walks with the San Diego Canyoneers. Maybe Stacy, the naturalist with an owl tattoo at the back of her lower left leg could help identify some flowers I could only associate with gays coming out only when they think it's the right time.
The next one I think is an Indian brush. I think the brush is more of Native American,  not anyone from New Delhi. 
I could tell Stacy's wooly blue curls when I see one! 
I could also tell a sage when I smell one. 
And I could never have enough of white dickheads. 
Even the cattle look Highland Valley-ish. They look more like pets than future hamburgers. 
These holy cows were shot by Ken Kugel, the mountain bike guru who led the meetup hike in this cool highland valley grasslands preserve.

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