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