HAPPY POPPY PARTY FLOWER FESTIVAL COMING TO LANCASTER.Byline: Peggy Hager Staff Writer LANCASTER - Lancaster Poppy Festival organizers are keeping their fingers crossed as weekend weather forecasts warn of cool temperatures and possible showers. But officials expect this year's festival to be a success, with crowds of 60,000 expected - and the valley's wildflowers are cooperating. ``Everything's going fine, couldn't be better,'' said Norma Gurba, curator of the Lancaster Museum Art Gallery. ``Weather reports are often inaccurate. We're looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a great family fun weekend.'' Poppies are blooming a little late this year but Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve The Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve is a California wildlife reserve located in the rural westside of the Antelope Valley in northern Los Angeles County. Constitutionally, it is a state park. Its namesake is the state flower, the California Poppy. officials say some poppies are in bloom in the reserve's northeast corner. Poppies and other wildflowers are also blooming along Lancaster Road west of the reserve and along Avenue I east of the reserve. More poppies are blooming along Avenue E around 110th Street West. Even Lancaster City Park has a few. Festival visitors can buy seeds for planting in their own yard. The focus of the festival this year is on music and art, but it also includes children's activities, a farmer's market and environmental displays. Music headliners include Mike Gealer and Euphoria at 2 p.m. Saturday, followed by jazz band Hiroshima at 4 p.m. Jazz singer Flora Purim and Airto will perform at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, followed by jazz guitarist Jazz guitarists are guitar players who play jazz music using an approach to playing chords, melodies, and improvised solo lines which is called jazz guitar playing. The guitar has a long history in jazz music, both as an ensemble instrument performing chordal accompaniment, and as Lee Ritenour at 3:30 p.m. Other music acts will perform throughout the day. The festival will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Lancaster City Park, 43011 10th St. W. Admission is $6 for visitors age 13 to 61, or $3 for seniors age 62 and over and for children 6 through 12. Admission for children under 5 is free and parking is $2 a car. For more information about the festival, call the Lancaster Parks, Recreation and Arts Department at (661) 723-6077, or visit the festival's Web site at www.poppyfestival.com. The poppy reserve, operated by the state parks department, is open from sunrise to sunset every day. There are seven miles of trails from which to view the elusive poppies. No dogs or mountain bikes are allowed on the reserve except for seeing-eye dogs seeing-eye dog: see guide dog. . The poppy reserve is located at 15101 Lancaster Road. The entry fee is $2 per vehicle. For those 62 and over, the fee is $1 per vehicle. Information about the reserve can be found at www.calparksmojave.com. Up-to-date information on where wildflowers are blooming can be obtained by calling the poppy hotline phone number at (661) 724-1180. CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1 -- 2 -- color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour AV edition only -- ran in AV and SAC editions only) California poppies California poppy: see poppy. California poppy Annual garden plant (Eschscholzia californica) in the poppy family, native to the western coast of North America and naturalized in parts of southern Europe, Asia, and Australia. , the state flower, bloom in a field along 120th Street West near Avenue I, top. Above, Phoenix High School horticulture horticulture [Lat. hortus=garden], science and art of gardening and of cultivating fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants. Horticulture generally refers to small-scale gardening, and agriculture to the growing of field crops, usually on a large students Recardo Ordaz, left, Arnold Garcia and Alex Montes mon·tes n. Plural of mons. work on their school's display for the Lancaster Poppy Festival coming this weekend. (3 -- color -- ran in AV edition only) No need to follow the Yellow Brick Road or doze off on the way to the Emerald City, golden poppies are easily visible among the yellow goldfields n. 1. A small slender woolly annual (Lasthenia chrysostoma) with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; it grows from Southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; - it is often cultivated. and red stem filaree in a Lancaster field off 120th Street. (4 -- ran in AV and SAC editions only) Workers on Thursday set up in the Poppy Stage Tent at Lancaster City Park. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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