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