Bees on the Chiapas Sage
You know that Spring truly is here when different bees arrive. This is a Habropoda digger bee female foraging for pollen in a blossom on...
Cedar Waxwings feeding on berries
When the cedar waxwings eat, they feed in large groups. The waxwings are eating berries on a tree that my neighbor calls the volunteer...
American Robin eating Ivy Berries
English ivy is invasive and tries to take over our fences and hedges. We removed the ivy completely from one fence, and are now trying to...
After the rain
After some several days of very welcome rainy weather, the flowers and foliage are refreshed. One of the first blooming California...
Silence
is the sound of extinction. Acclaimed environmental philosopher and nature writer Kathleen Dean Moore has written a new collection of...
Ooh, how about this sunset?
So interesting how a sunset can look quite ordinary at first. Then you happen to look out the window twenty minutes later. And see this....
Yellow Faced Bumble Bee and the Verbena De La Mina
This is the first time I've ever seen the Yellow-faced bumble bee on the native Verbena De La Mina shrub. In the past years I've only...
Golden-crowned Sparrow visiting
A wonderful golden-crowned sparrow was willing to remain perched on a branch while I photographed it. I was testing my new telephoto lens...
Non-Native Plants are Contributing to Global Insect Decline
Excellent article about the importance of native plants. Enzo Pérès-Labourdette /Yale E360 https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-non-native-...
Our first California poppy of the year
Poppies have always had such a special place in my heart, ever since I first saw fields of red poppies. I was a little girl at the time,...
