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