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