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