Join us this week as we talk with Ansley Davies, Associate Curator for the Los Angeles County Department of Parks \& Recreation about the otherworldly Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park off Highway 14. We’ll also visit with Interpreter Jean Ryne of the California State Parks System to get the skinny on the effect of the recent heat wave on the spring bloom at the the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve. audiofile YCES-102.mp3 relevantHyperLinks Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve State Natural Reserve website. Jean Ryne's email Vasquez Rocks Natural Area website. L.A. Times editorial: Project near Olvera Street should be cautious with L.A.'s history. Mansionization limits move forward. Twain's to be restored. Tower proposed for 4th and Hill Streets.   Monthly Sunday LAVA Salon March 2015 Monthly Sunday LAVA Salon April 2015 Upcoming Bus Tours Hollywood! Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice The Real Black Dahlia Echo Park Book of the Dead Haunts of A Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski's Los Angeles Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles Tom Waits Tour Eastside Babylon