Photos: San Diego bursts into color as everything seems to be blooming everywhere

It’s the time of year where San Diegans make the haul to Anza-Borrego Desert State Park or take a stroll through the Carlsbad flower fields to revel in spring’s embrace. But locals needn’t journey far or put in special effort. Indeed, the bloom is all around us — it’s the mustard (sorry, it’s invasive) climbing the highway hillsides, the California lilacs flowering in the neighbor’s front yard and the fruit trees dangling blossoms over the city’s warming pavement.

As the region has come to life with color in the past few weeks, photographers from The San Diego Union-Tribune fanned out to capture San Diego as locals have come to know it: picture-perfect.