All photographs by Alan Starbuck
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California Everlasting (Pseudognaphalium califoricum or P. beneolens)
Dew drops on long leaf bush lupine (Lupinus longifolius)
Wild Hyacinth/Blue Dicks (Dichelostemma capitatum)
Creek in the rainforest
Salmon sculpture ‘swimming’ upstream
Dragonfly
Arroyo Lupine (Lupinus succulentus)
Poison Oak (Toxicodendron diversilobum)
Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) resting on a street parkway
California Four O’clock (Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
Elk (Cervus canadensis) resting in a meadow in Estes Park, Colorado
California sunflower (Encelia californica)
Gray Whale (Echrichtius robustus) off Newport Beach
Chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum)
Swarming ground-dwelling bees, perhaps of the miner bee family (Andrena species)
Hornworm, caterpillar of White-lined Sphinx Moth (Hyles lineata)
Purple nightshade (Solanum xantii)
Wooly bear, a caterpillar of a tiger moth species
Deer weed (Acmispon glaber var. glaber
Canyon view in Rancho Sierra Vista/Satwiwa park
California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica
Toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia) overlooking Los Angeles
Canyon sunflower (Venegasia carpesioides)
Tree Canopy Walk at Capilano Suspension Bridge Park
Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton americanus)
Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrichium)
Sycamore (Platanus racemosa)
Boney Mountain overlooking Rancho Sierra Vista/Satwiwa park
Purple Needlegrass (Stipa pulchra)
Moss in the rainforest
California Goldenrod (Solidago californica) and flamingo (plasticia fakium)
Early morning spider web
Long Leaf Bush Lupine (Lupinus longifolius)
Seaside Daisy (Erigeron glaucus)
Sugar Bush (Rhus ovata)
Narrow-leafed Milkweed (Asclepias fascicularis) greeting the Spring
Black sage (Salvia mellifera)
Madonna Too Iris — a hybrid of the Douglas Iris (Iris douglasiana), a California native
White Mariposa Lily (Catochortus venustus)
Sycamore (Platanus racemosa)
California poppy (Eschscholzia californica)
An old log provides protection for Silver Carpet California aster while adding an natural element to the garden
Closed section of Mt. Hollywood Drive in Griffith Park
Western Hemlock twig on a moss cover branch
Toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia)
Collarless poppy (Eschscholzia lemmonii)
Parry phaclia (Phacelia parryi)
Sara’s Orange Tip butterfly (Anthocharis sara) on a wild hyacinth (Dichelostemma capitatum)
California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica) making an surprise appearance
Ceanothus flowers, either big pod ceanothus (Ceanothus megacarpus) or greenbark ceanothus (C. spinosus)
Nature Garden at Los Angeles County Natural History Musuem
Island Snapdragon (Galvezia speciosa) and California Barberry (Berberis pinnata)
Matilija poppy (Romneya coulteri)
California Barberry (Berberis pinnata) – Flowers and New Leaves
California Morning Glory (Calystegia macrostegia ssp. intermedia
Moss reclaims a tree stump in the British Columbia rainforest
Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia)
Moss on a twig
Seed pod – Wild Cucumber (Marah macrocarpa) )
California Sea Lions (Zalophus californianus) resting on a buoy
Wild Cucumber (Marah macrocarpa)
Purple nightshade (Solanum xantii)
Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia)
Western Whiptail (Aspidoscelis tigris)
Deer weed (Acmispon glaber var. glaber
California bluebells (Phacelia minor)
California Sunflower (Encelia californica)
Wild Hyacinth (Dichelostemma capitatum)
Rancho Sierra Vista/Satwiwa park
Capilano Suspension Bridge
White-lined Sphinx Moth (Hyles lineata)
Fluke of a Gray Whale (Echrichtius robustus) off Newport Beach
A patch of laurel sumac, prickly pear cactus, California sunflowers and deerweed growing on a hillside
Western Fence Lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis)
Hummingbird Sage (Salvia spathacea)
Concrete Chaparral 