The Route to House #4

I was up at House #4 yesterday and took some pictures of the road on the way:

The shrub above is blooming along the roads, one of the homeowners told me it's called a tobacco tree.
The one below is brittle bush -- it's been blooming all over in the ditchs for over a month now:

This is the gate on the road a mile or two before you get to the house:

These are trees along the road that were scorched pretty good by the fires -- but they're trying very hard to survive:

But there's a lot of stuff that didn't make it:

These roads are fun to drive on -- and the views are spectacular:

Everyone tells us that we're here at the most beautiful time of the year. In a month or two, everything will be brown and dry.