Spring Sketches

Here are two sketches from one sunny spring day in San Fernando Valley. The leaves of the trees lining suburban streets were bright green and the cherry blossoms were blooming in Balboa Lake. It's all beautiful, yet springtime is very short-lived in Southern California - summer is right around the corner. Unlike cherry blossom seasons I remember from my childhood in Japan, the weather in the Valley was already hot and dry.

(...and it rained today. Maybe summer is not around the corner after all.)