

Meyer Lemons bring cheerful color on a gray day.
The Meyer Lemon tree is producing a lot of fruit. It looks like it grew quite a bit since a year ago. The organic fertilizer and the rain...


Seeds for the birds
The birds are enjoying the dried seeds on plants in the front yard. After it bloomed and then dried up, I left the Amaranthus "Hot...


Lovely Red Tiger Abutilon
Oh, isn't the Abutilon Red Tiger blossom lovely... We purchased this plant as a seedling from Spiral Gardens http://www.spiralgardens.org...


Mockingbird's delight
We are so surprised to see that the figs on our potted Black Jack fig tree are actually ripening now. We bought the tree late Spring of...


Anna's hummingbirds
The Anna's hummingbirds are here all year round. Although we used to have a nectar feeder set up for them at our previous home, now that...


Brown-Eyed Bushtits in the garden
Finally able to capture some images of these adorable little birds. They fly into the garden often, but they are so quick, that I haven't...


American Crows' treasure
The object above seems to be just an ordinary plastic cover for a jar. But you are mistaken if you think so. This is a treasure for the...


Splash!
See how the Gold Crowned Sparrows just love bathing in the bird bath. Here is the same bird as it approached the bath. It sat on a wooden...


Gold Crowned Sparrows in the bird bath
What a treat to see two Gold Crowned Sparrows in the bird bath! The bird standing in the bath was in there first before the second one,...


Gold Crowned Sparrow
These days the gold crowned sparrows are often in the garden, both in the front and back. Here is one of them poking around a garden bed....