Carrizo Plain Panoramas
I suspect that anyone who loves wildflowers heard about the super bloom in California this year. After five years of drought and dry winters, most [...]
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is one of the premier public gardens of native plants in the country, with a collection of California native plants in [...]
de Anza Expedition in Anza-Borrego
On March 15, 1774 and December 24, 1775 Juan Bautista de Anza, leading expeditions from Mexico into Alta California, camped in Coyote Canyon in Anza-Borrego [...]
Poppy Perspective
I am delighted to have another Better Photos with Any Camera workshop at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, a wonderland dedicated to California native plants. Wildflower [...]
Cactus Point of View at Superbloom
The Anza-Borrego desert in California is in the midst of a superbloom wildflower display. California native plant desert garden landscape, Anza Borrego State Park [...]
Seeing the Native Plant Garden
Native plant gardens tend to be hard to photograph. Often the gardeners care more about the plants and habitat than the aesthetics. This is perfectly [...]
California Oaks
This will be an homage to the Oaks of California. I love ’em. Spring trees at sunset, Valley Oak, Quercus lobata in the California [...]
Disturbance at The Sea Ranch
The Sea Ranch is legendary in the history of California Coastal development. In the early 1960’s, ten miles of the Sonoma Coast was designated for development, in [...]
Flowering Oak – Moment in Time
When the Oaks were at the peak of flowering last month in the Rush Creek Open Space across the street, I could see the red [...]
Oaks Inspire Art
Yesterday I stood under this tree looking for a pattern in the gold leaves and dark branches. I must have spent an hour looking up [...]