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