2014 lemonlilyfestival

Lemon Lily Stained Glass by Scott Finnell and Lisa Coffaro. Read about it on page 2.

Idyllwild Nature Center

July 12-13, 20145th annualLemon Lily Festival

- Idyllwild Lemon Lily Festival Program, 2014

Developing more entertainment and special vendors to celebrate the Lemon Lily, our fifth festival concentrates even more on the education and restoration aspects. This year features two days of speakers covering multiple subjects relevant to mountain ecology and conservation. The Nature Center continues to work in partnership with the Idyllwild Garden Club to provide educational opportunities for Idyllwild school students and local resi-dents. Currently, weekend volunteers learn about invasive non-native species while removing threatening plant life along the creek in Idyllwild County Park Campground. Working with the Idyllwild School Garden Club, young gardeners are given the chance to develop their skills while learning about our native flora and fauna. This year’s activities kick off with our Lemon Lily Launch/Taste of Idyllwild, combining two fun and suc-cessful events from previous years. Erin O’Neill will, once again, open her beautiful home to host this event from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 11. The fundraising evening features live music and drinks, with an assortment of Idyllwild’s restaurants offering samplings of their cuisine. Tickets for this combination of popular events are $30 in advance and $35 at the door. Purchase advance tickets at the Idyllwild Nature Center, 25225 Highway 243, the Post Office or call (951) 659-3850 to make reservations. SATURDAY presents a full day of activities at both the Nature Center and in the center of town. At the Nature Center, Pioneer Town continues to be popular with both children and adults, offering the opportunity to learn what life was like during a time when the Lemon Lily was prolific in Idyllwild. The Penny Royal Players, a group of women who con-vey the settlers’ experience in the American West through letters and song, will educate and entertain. Pony rides, doll and rope-making will round out the experience. Vendors, specifically selected to enhance the festival, are featured adjacent to the Nature Center, offering perfect memories of the weekend. Nature walks and talks are featured throughout the day, educating visitors on the plight of the Lemon Lily and other environmental issues in our San Jacinto Moun-tains. If Mother Nature cooperates, visitors will have the opportunity to see the Lily in bloom on both specimen plants and in its natural habitat. In the center of town, the toe-tapping sounds of live bluegrass/country music will fill the air on Park Lane with country band Duke Michaels on Saturday and That’s All Folk on Sunday. Surrounding the stages are a predominance of Idyllwild’s various nonprofit and service organizations, offering in-formation, fundraising products and refreshments. The Idyllwild Garden Club will, once again, conduct tours at

Erin O’Neill’s home. There you can see Lemon Lilies in a most beautiful and idyllic habitat. Throughout the weekend, shoppers can receive chances to win beautiful Idyllwild baskets filled with inn stays, restaurant experiences, and product and gift certificates, simply by shopping with sponsoring businesses. SUNDAY, most of Saturday’s events will be repeated both at the Nature Center and in town, culminating in a 3:30 p.m. drawing for this year’s Lemon Lily Stained Glass piece, Idyllwild baskets and silent auction items. As a way to enjoy all the excitement, we encourage

Welcome to the fifth-annual Lemon Lily Festival

ABOUT THE COVER: Idyllwild residents Scott Finnell and Lisa Coffaro created and donated this beautiful stained glass win-dow to the Idyllwild Lemon Lily Festival for its annual raffle. The one-of-a-kind design, drawn by Coffaro, consists of three Lemon Lilies on a geometrical background of colored and clear art glass. The piece is made up of two stained glass windows set in a vintage window frame using both fused and stained glass techniques to create its unique look. The piece, which measures 42”x 26”, is set to be auctioned to the highest bidder Sunday afternoon. Photo by Halie Johnson

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From our president: On behalf of the Friends of the San Jacinto Mountain County Parks and our co-sponsor, the Idyllwild Garden Club, we welcome you to the fifth-annual Lemon Lily Festival. The festival is intended to provide joy, fun, listening pleasure and education for our visitors. The festival is, of course, dedicated to one of our indigenous flowers, the Lemon Lily, Lilium parryi. The mission of the Lemon Lily Steering Committee is to foster an appreciation for the threatened native lily (Lilium parryi), educate the public of its plight and relevance to Idyllwild, restore it to its historical range and benefit Idyllwild economically by promoting it as a visitor destination. We hope we succeed and hope you enjoy the festival. The San Jacinto Mountain County Parks are managed by the Riverside County Parks and Open-Space District. They include the Nature Center, Idyllwild County Park, Pine Cove Park, Hurkey Creek Campground, McCall Memorial Equestrian Campground, and Lawler Lodge. Friends of the SJMCP is a nonprofit corporation whose mission is to assist, promote, advance and develop the

historical, scientific, educational and cultural aspects pertaining to SJMCP. The group is guided by a board of directors who typically meet monthly to guide its affairs. Membership is open to everyone. For more information, contact the staff or volunteers at the Nature Center located at 25225 Highway 243, Idyllwild, CA or visit www.idyllwildnaturecenterfriends.org.

George Ray, PresidentFriends of the San Jacinto Mountain County Parks

visitors to park their vehicles at either location and ride the convenient shuttles the Riverside County’s M.A.R.S. Program provides. Let us do the driving so you can enjoy the festival. We welcome everyone to this year’s fifth-annual Lemon Lily Festival and hope you will enjoy the experience as much as we enjoyed putting it together!

In the spirit of “Celebration, Education & Restoration,”

The 2014 Lemon Lily Festival Steering Committee

A Streamside Lemon Lily Stroll with the Idyllwild Garden Club

A docent guided tour in a shaded glen where Lemon Lilies grow streamside. You will also learn about many of our native plants

during this leisurely walk on private grounds, just minutes from downtown. Tours are every 30 minutes on Saturday and Sunday.

(Hours posted at LL Ticket booth downtown) $5 per person, or $10 per family

A Streamside Lemon Lily Stroll

with the Idyllwild Garden Club

$5 per person $10 per family

Hours posted at the Lemon Lily Ticket Booth

Downtown.

A docent guided tour in a shaded glen where Lemon Lilies

grow streamside. You will also learn about many of our native plants

during this leisurely walk on private grounds, just minutes from

downtown. Tours are every 30 minutes on Saturday and Sunday.

Idyllwild Town Crier, Idyllwild Lemon Lily Festival Program, 2014 -

Lemon Lily blessing Join Maureen McElligott Saturday, July 12, at the Nature Center in honoring the memory of Festival Founder, Doug Yagaloff as she offers a blessing over Lemon Lilies being planted in our demonstration garden.

The 2014 Lemon Lily Festival is dedicated

to the memory of its founder, Doug Yagaloff

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Back for a third year, the Lemon Lily Festival’s, “A Little Bluegrass” features bluegrass and country/western musicians performing throughout the day both Saturday and Sunday. Idyllwild’s nonprofit and service organizations will create a unique “marketplace” surrounding the bluegrass stages with booths offering food, crafts, jewelry and more. Another successful repeat from last year is our Lemon Lily Banner Contest, offering original banners created by local artists hung throughout town to advertise the festival. (more on pages 9 and 10.) This display of beautiful Lemon Lily-inspired 3-foot-by-5-foot banners is in partnership with the Art Alliance of Idyllwild, with the banners being a part of a silent auction after Lemon Lily weekend. Of course, the festival would not be complete without repeating its other successes from the years — guided, botanist-led walking tours and hikes, opportunities to view Lemon Lilies growing along local stream beds, Pioneer Town arts and crafts, and a Friday evening, July 11, Lemon Lily Launch and Taste of Idyllwild (a combined kick-off fundraiser) featuring food and treats from local restaurants and music set at a beautiful and tranquil private residence. More information about all of these events and the festival may be found online at www.lemonlilyfestival.com.

Lemon Lily Launch & Taste of Idyllwild This year the festival again is combining two popular fundraisers into one peaceful but exciting evening. Join us at a lovely, idyllic private residence for an evening of celebration in honor of the Lemon Lily. Some of Idyllwild’s favorite restaurants will be on site serving samples of specially created dishes. The evening will include live music with beverages available. Tickets at $30 per person are available prior to the event at the Nature Center, in front of the Idyllwild Post Office, or $35 at the door. The event is from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 11.

Lemon Lily ToursBy Antoinette BerthelotteIdyllwild Garden Club

The Idyllwild Garden Club offers an exceptional treat during the festival. Visitors will enjoy Lemon Lilies in a delightful streamside stroll on private property within feet of a shuttle drop-off. The O’Beck Garden is nestled in a shady glen that not only has Lemon Lilies on site, but docents, who will point out a number of our lovely and unique native flowers, including elderberry, columbine, mountain azalea, pink mountain currant, monkey flower, thimbleberry, ferns and more, all in a tree-shaded habitat on Strawberry Creek. The terrain is not difficult, although wheelchairs and walkers are not recommended. The average visit is 20 to 30 minutes, but visitors may stay and sit a spell. Roadside parking is available at the garden. Guided strolls start at 11 a.m. and the last one starts at 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets — $5 per person or $10 per family and children are free — may be purchased onsite. All proceeds go to help the nonprofit Garden Club continue building the native plant demonstration garden at the Historical Society, educational events and beautifica-tion projects throughout Idyllwild. See more information at www.idyllwildgardenclub.com, or call 951-659-2907 or 858-472-4337.

For the kids Our popular Pioneer Town will be part of the festival events at the Idyllwild Nature Center. A highlight again this year is performances by the Pennyroyal Players (www.pennyroyalplayers.org). The group travels from Vermont to California, bringing lively and touching musical portraits about those who settled the American West. Through story

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Hold onto your hats and tune up your ears, the Penny-royal Players are coming to the 2014 Lemon Lily Festival. This talented group of six women entertained audiences last year with their performance of “Piecin’ It Together.” “Piecin’ It Together” uses storytelling and song to present portraits of people who settled the American West. Their experiences reveal some of the hardships, triumphs and humor that was part of the pioneering life in the 18th and 19th centuries. The six talented women who perform “Piecin’” use song and stories within a framework of quilting, intro-ducing us to people who were part of the frontier and immigrant experience. This Pennyroyal production was inspired by the musical play “Quilters,” but the music is different. “I’m a folksinger from the 1960s, so I had to use traditional songs and folk music that was around in that period,” says director Anne Destabelle, who created this show

when she founded the group in 2005. Even if you were one of the lucky people who caught one or more of Pennyroyal’s four performances at last years’ Lemon Lily Festival, it won’t be the same this July. “The script continues to evolve,” says Destabelle. The group’s repertoire has also grown over the years and now includes “Romp Through the American Revolution” and “Songs and Stories of Stephen Foster.” Pennyroyal Players are proud to have donated more than $50,000 in performance fees to charities that support special programs for children and the arts. “In fact, we donate all our proceeds to these charities,” says Desta-belle, who lives in the Palos Verdes area of Los Angeles County.

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Garden Club Lemon Lily Streamside StrollPrivate Fern Valley home $5 Individual/$10 Family

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Lemon Lily Festival scheduleFriday, July 11Lemon Lily LaunchTaste of IdyllwildHome of Erin O’Neill6 -9 p.m.Presale tickets $30/At the door $35 Come have a taste of specialties from Idyllwild’s best restaurants. An evening of music, food and drinks and a tour of Erin O’Neill’s gardens and home benefiting Lemon Lily restoration and the Idyllwild Garden Club. Tickets may be purchased at the Nature Center, in front of the Post Office or at the door.

Saturday, July 12Lemon Lily BlessingIdyllwild Nature Center25225 Highway 243, Idyllwild8:30 a.m. Join Maureen McElligott in honoring the memory of Festival Founder Doug Yagaloff as she offers a blessing over Lemon Lilies being planted in our demonstration garden.

Pioneer TownIdyllwild Nature Center25225 Highway 243, Idyllwild9 a.m.-4 p.m. The Pennyroyal Players (pennyroyalplayers.org) use quilt squares, music and stories of the role of women in the westward movement. Showtimes are 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. A shooting gallery, washtub laundry, roping, horsehoe toss, yarn dolls, pony rides, blacksmithing, children’s crafts with period characters complete the day.

Lemon Lily Walks and Marketplace Idyllwild Nature Center25225 Highway 243, Idyllwild9 a.m.-4 p.m. Native plants will be on sale with advice from the UCR Master Gardeners. Locally made arts, crafts, jewelry and food stuffs will be available. Barbecue, Hawaiian shaved ice and food concessions will be available. Guided walks will take place at 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.

Nature TalksIdyllwild Nature Center25225 Highway 243, Idyllwild Talks by local experts covering multiple topics pertinent to our environment:• 11 a.m. - Toni Berthelotte, past president, Idyllwild Garden Club, “Life and Times of the Lemon Lily.” This presentation will describe the life cycle of the Lemon Lily.• 1 p.m. - Kate Kramer, U.S. Forest Service botanist• 2:30 p.m. - Deborah Geisinger, certified arborist

A Little Bluegrass/Country WesternJo’An’s Restaurant, Park Lane in town1-4 p.m. Come hear popular Country performer Duke Michaels. Stroll among the beer garden at Jo’An’s and booths repre-senting Idyllwild’s many fine nonprofit organizations.

Idyllwild Garden Club ToursTour the Gardens of Erin O’Neill$5 per person/$10 per family Docent-led tours of spectacular gardens will take you streamside to see the environment of the Lemon Lily. Tickets will be available at the information booth in town or at the gardens.

Sunday, July 13Pioneer TownIdyllwild Nature Center25225 Highway 243, Idyllwild9 a.m.-4 p.m. The Pennyroyal Players (pennyroyalplayers.org) use quilt squares, music and stories of the role of women in the westward movement. Showtimes are 2 p.m. and 3:15 p.m. A scale-sized log cabin, yarn dolls, pony rides, blacksmithing and children’s crafts with period characters complete the day.

Lemon Lily Walks and Marketplace Idyllwild Nature Center25225 Highway 243, Idyllwild9 a.m.-4 p.m. Native plants will be on sale with advice from the UCR Master Gardeners. Locally made arts, crafts, jewelry and food stuffs will be available. Barbecue, Hawaiian shaved ice and food concessions will be available. Guided walks will take place at 10:30 a.m.,12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.

Nature TalksIdyllwild Nature Center25225 Highway 243, Idyllwild Talks by local experts covering multiple topics pertinent to our environment:• Noon - Deborah Geisinger, certified arborist• 1 p.m. - Toni Berthelotte, past president, Idyllwild Garden Club, “Life and Times of the Lemon Lily.” This presentation will describe the life cycle of the Lemon Lily.• 2 p.m. - Debra Nelson, U.S. Forest Service botanist

Idyllwild Garden Club ToursTour the Gardens of Erin O’Neill$5 per person/$10 per family Docent-led tours of spectacular gardens will take you streamside to see the environment of the Lemon Lily. Tickets will be available at the information booth in town or at the gardens.

A Little Bluegrass/Country WesternJo’An’s Restaurant, Park Lane in Town1-4 p.m. Come hear That’s All Folk with a little blugrass on Sunday. Stroll among the beer garden at Jo’An’s and booths representing Idyllwild’s many fine nonprofit organizations.

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The Idyllwild Lemon Lily Festival continues to evolve. Honoring its commit-ment this year, we are happy to announce our festival guest speakers talking on a wide range of topics related to our local forest and unique mountain. Toni Berthelotte, Garden Club member and festival steering c o m m i t t e e member, will be giving a slide-show presenta-tion and talk, “Life and Times of the Lemon Lily.” This presentation will describe the life cycle of the Lemon Lily. Toni will speak on both Saturday and Sunday. Kate Kramer, Ph.D., Biological Systems Engineering, U.S. Forest Service botanist, presents, “The Natural History of the Lemon Lily and Rare Plants in our Mountains” on Saturday. Kate is the former botanist for the San Jacinto

Ranger District. Kate, along with amateur botanist Dave Stith, was among the first to conceive the idea for the Lemon Lily resto-ration project, serving as inspiration for the members of the original committee. Kate has been instrumental in educat-ing, informing and leading the committee to a better understanding of the lily’s ecological importance. Dave continues to botanize, study, plant lilies and conduct surveys documenting several of our native plants throughout the San Jacintos. Deborah Geisinger, local arborist, tree and landscape consultant, will speak on “Tree Health Care and How to be a Tree Steward and Advocate.” Geisinger will present both Saturday and Sunday. Debra Nelson, current USFS botanist on the San Jacinto Ranger District, will discuss the effects of the Mountain Fire on Lemon Lily p o p u l a t i o n s during her presentation “Lemon Lilies and General Plant Community Recovery from the Mountain Fire” on Sunday.

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Harvey Monroe Hall conducted the first systematic survey of the plants in the San Jacintos. His flora, “A Botanical Survey of San Jacinto Mountain” was published in 1902. Of Lilium parryi he writes: “This lily, with its tall, erect stems and conspicuous flowers either clear yellow or peppered with black, is a great favorite with the tourists and campers who annually visit the mountain. It was only a few years ago that the showy blossoms were very frequently encountered with along all the streams and bogs from nearly the lower edge of the Transition Zone up to an altitude of 9,000 feet, thus reaching into the lower part of the Canadian Zone. While it is now by no means rare, [it] is still only found in profusion only on the more remote parts of the mountain. That this is due entirely to the diligence of the bulb hunters is hard to believe, and yet one party took over 5,000 bulbs in a single season. Perhaps this, in addition to several consecutive dry summers, is responsible for the rapid depletion in their numbers.” From this we can learn three things: 1) They were once much more abundant than they are now; 2) the tourists who visited the mountain knew of them and; 3) thousands of them were dug up and forever removed from the mountain. I wanted to see if it was still true that they could be found in profusion on the more remote parts of the mountain, or if conditions were now such that there was no hope of ever bringing them back. In 2009, I enlisted Tom Chester, along with some of our friends and colleagues, to help me count every Lemon Lily in Willow and Tahquitz creeks. We counted 2,662 plants, including new seedlings, immature plants that had not yet bloomed, flowering plants and plants in fruit with seeds. This appeared to be a healthy, reproducing population. If they can still grow where they have not been disturbed by people, I began to ask, “Why not in Idyllwild?” if we just give them a chance.

Lemon Lily or Parry’s Lily, Lilium parryi, is named in honor of Dr. Charles Christopher Parry, a renowned botanist who was among the first to collect it in the summer of 1876. Lilium parryi of the Family Liliaceae is a perennial herb that grows from a bulb with a stem reaching a height of 1.9 meters. It has scattered or whorled leaves with very fragrant lemon-yellow, funnel-shaped flowers. In Southern California it grows in the San Gabriel, San Bernardino and San Jacinto mountains, as well as Palomar Mountain. Small populations can also be found in southeastern Arizona in the Santa Rita, Huachuca and Chiricahua mountains and in extreme northern Sonora, Mexico, in the Sierra Los Ajos.

The lilies inhabit springs, seeps, wet meadows and shady canyon bottoms along perennial streams at an elevation of 4,000 to 9,000 feet. Forest fires and subse-quent erosion have severely impacted three populations in Arizona (Falk and Warren, 1994), and their popula-tions have been negatively impacted by “flower pullers” in Palomar (Craig H. Reiser, 1994) and bulb collectors in San Jacinto (H.M. Hall, 1902). It is uncommon throughout its California range, close to extirpation in San Diego County (Craig H. Reiser, 1994) and listed by state and federal agencies as a sensitive species that should be protected. For more information about the Lemon Lily, visit Michael Charter’s site at www.calflora.net/bloomingplants/lemonlily.html.

Lily; it has been used extensively in breeding programs to produce some of the most beautiful garden cultivars. At least three lily hybrids have been developed by cross-ing the Lemon Lily with other kinds of lilies and then reproducing them by the methods mentioned; one is San Gabriel. This may be the way to direct our low-land lily lovers to plants that will grow in valley gardens — and are at least part Lemon Lily. Genetically variable populations in the wild are im-portant for Lemon Lilies to persist; lilies must have a pollinator to produce seed. Available information suggests that sphinx moths (Hyles lineata and Sphinx perelegans) are the main pollinators. It makes sense; the Lemon Lily flowers are the most fragrant at dusk when moths would be flying. We really need to do a Lemon Lily “stake-out” and watch plants for a day and late evening to find out who is visiting our lilies here. In one of the earliest floras of the San Jacinto Moun-tains, an observation was made of the incredible collecting pressures by admirers trying to get the Lemon Lily in the nursery trade. With so many bulbs removed from our mountains, it’s no wonder that the Lemon Lily is a rare plant. The drought in the 1970s may have dried up much of the lily’s habitat, as well; fluctuating water levels have affected lily populations in Arizona. With a little care and attention, the Lemon Lily will continue to grace our mountains and be part of our lives.

By Kate Kramer

BotaniSt, San Jacinto ranger DiStrict

The Lemon Lily, one of our most spectacular local wildflowers, is rare and uncommon but not on the endan-gered species list. This 3- to 5-foot plant with large showy yellow flowers and whorled leaves is found in mountain creeks from 5,000 to 9,000 feet in our Southern California mountains with a few — maybe two — populations in the mountains of Southern Arizona as well. Today, this is where the lily is found, in scattered groups in the San Jacinto and Santa Rosa mountains. Moist habitats are key. Lily seeds need to be moist and cool to germinate and grow in the following year. Seeds develop into scaly bulbs about an inch in diameter. When the bulb has accumulated enough energy, in three to five years it will produce a flowering stalk with one to nine or more fragrant yellow flowers. Plants in nature don’t appear to multiply by bulb; the extent of vegetative reproduction is unknown. However, in culture, scales from the bulb can be removed and placed in a special soil mix to grow into individual bulbs. This is how nurseries from out of the area (in Oregon) produce Lemon Lilies that are available for purchase. Tissue culture is another way that seems to be successful as well. But it’s hard to cut up even one bulb to do this. Lily enthusiasts world-wide know about the Lemon

Natural history of our Lemon Lily

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Artists’ interpretations of Lemon Lily on bannersBy MiMi LaMp

art aLLiance of idyLLwiLd

When was the last time you were able to buy public art? Or purchase a 3-foot-by-5-foot original painting? Well, today is your lucky day. Fourteen original pieces of beauti-ful art, painted on vinyl, have been flying over our town in celebration of our delicate Lemon Lily, creating awareness of their plight as well as creating an artful experience to enjoy in our mountain town. Fourteen artists spent two months creating these wonderful works of art to help raise funds to rescue the Lemon Lily. Now it is your chance to help those replanting and preserving the Lemon Lily. You can start bidding this weekend to become the proud owner of one of these wonderful banners. Highest bidder takes it home at the end of the festival. Imagine hanging a painted 5-foot Lemon Lily in your backyard. Any one of these painted banners hanging in your garden would be such a great conversation piece at your next summer party. They would look great in any room of your house. And your money would be helping a great cause. Local artists have spent the last two months interpreting their own experiences on the Hill with our indigenous flower, the Lemon Lily. I don’t think we have had a better collection of banners as we have this year.

“Night of the Lemon Lily” by Sherri Domenigoni

Learning more about its probable pollinator, the white lined sphinx moth, is key to restoring the rare lily to its former habitat and glory.

“One Fine Day in Idyllwild Amongst the Lemon Lilies” by Gerry High

He has painted all the icons of our beautiful mountain. It is obvious why he was last year’s winner.

“Against the Blue” by Neil Jenkins

Neil enjoys painting in primary colors and exploring depths of shaded textures.

“Disgruntled Spirits” by Kaarin Elizabeth

Knowing the history of our mountain and the angry spirits was the inspiration for this banner.

“Lemon Lily by the Lake” by Robert Bush

His perfect rendition of the Lemon Lilies can only match his perfect back-ground. The Lemon Lilies love water!

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“Moon Lit Lemon Lilies” by Leela Roozen, age 14

Her art inspiration, at 14 years old, is her grand-mother. The five Lemon Lilies represent five years of the festival and the moon is based off the eclipse that happened recently.

“The Return of the Lemon Lily” by Sherri Domenigoni

The inspiration for this art piece is the people of Idyllwild, who are working to restore the Lemon Lily to its former streamside mountain habitat and fragrant beauty. Grow-ing and planting are the seeds toward success.

“Lily of the Field” by Manchester Girls, ages 8 to 18

I believe these four sisters have found the lovely “Lemon Lily Maiden.”

“Three Concerns of Idyllwild” by Jan Jasper Fayer

As a resident of Idyllwild since 1979, he has been an active member of two art associations. His love of Idyllwild is obvious in his art.

“Dusk” by Michelle Hedgecock

Inspired by the secret relationship between the Lemon Lily and its suspected pollinator, the sphinx moth. My banner represents the vital rela-tionship between these two species at dusk.

“Reaching to the Light” by Colin Garth

It is not hard to imagine being that little bug inside the Lemon Lily looking out at Lily Rock. Love the perspective.

“A Perfect World” by Karlis Dabols

Just nature in its fullest glory.

“Flor” by Evelia Nash

The colors of the Lem-on Lily season were the inspiration for this bold painting.

“Visual Conundrum” by Dr. Jan Bruner

Inspired by recent read-ings in physics, string chaos and unified theo-ries. All coming together through the visual spec-trum of colors, emerging in the form of our Lemon Lily.

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