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