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