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