Brood X cicadas are beginning to emerge across the country but they won't be here for long. As soil temperatures inch closer to 64 degrees, more cicadas will come up from the ground, shed their ...

CHRIS URSO | Times ] The jacaranda trees that dot the local landscape, many of them planted in the 1960s, are part of the ebb and flow of life in ... the natural cycle of the tree,” she said.

Fittingly, the bronze Historical Landmark that commemorates her life and influence, placed where she operated one of her nurseries, is shaded by a jacaranda tree. To many, jacaranda blooms signal ...