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