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