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