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