For Nowruz, it’s great outdoors

On the 13th day of the Persian New Year, or Nowruz, it is considered bad luck to be indoors. Above, from left, Mahtab Davatolhagh, Nick Spera, Natalie Zimmerman and Don Sauder join others at William R. Mason Regional Park in Irvine to soak in the nice weather as they celebrate the day called Sizdah Bedar. Below, Amir Norbakhsh, left, and Abbas Javan play backgammon, and at right, Roya Rohani spends the Sunday with her dog, Roxy.