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