Pacific Ocean pebbles at a Sea Ranch beach in Northern California for #RockinTuesday #pebbles #rocks #naturephotography #nature

For #roseMonday, Our Lady of Guadalupe, my favorite and most fragrant rose #Roses #flowers #FlowerReport #bloomsky #bloomscrolling #nature #naturephotography #photography #macrophotography 📷🌱🌸

Dahlias and bees from Filoli's dahlia garden #photography #flowers #plants #blossom #BloomScrolling #gardens #Fridayflowers #dahlias #naturephotography

Pantone's color of the year is.....white #colors link.join1440.com/click/428878...

This Thanksgiving I am so grateful for my children and grandchildren #thanksgiving #thankful #kids #grandkids

For #twoforTuesday, white/pink Bachelor's Buttons amid the usual blue buttons from my back garden this summer #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardens #nature #naturephotography #photography #bloomsky #flowersky

A lavender lovely on Monday #FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Garden #Roses #PhotographersofBluesky📷 #Photography 📷

Curlycup gumweed (Grindelia squarrosa), a native wildflowers of California, for #BlueSkyArtShow #small #bloomscrolling #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlueSky #nature #nativeplants #Californianativeplants #flowers

For a very late #forestFriday, here is the forest floor now that it has rained in northern California. Most of the plants are invasive but there is one native, a Pacific Snakeroot (the darker leafed plant in the center-left). #forestfloor #nativeplants #nature #naturephotography #photography

For #yellowThurs, here is my grandson as a #bee 🐝 #grandkids #happiness

For #roseWednesday, my back garden climbing rose after the rain. #rose #bloomscrolling #gardens #nature #naturephotography #flower #naturephotography #photography #raindrops #orange

For #nationaltakeahikeday I hiked Pine Canyon in a local regional park, northern California. A bit muddy from the recent rains, but now bursting with tiny green shoots. Unlike everywhere else, our plant life awakes in the winter. #nature #naturephotography #forest #trees #nativeplants

For #thicktrunkTuesday, here is an ancient Buckeye tree trunk from Pine Canyon in Castle Rock Regional Park in Walnut Creek, northern California #nativeplants #buckeye #naturephotography

Extra exciting Turkey Day

For #MagentaMonday, a Farewell-to-Spring blossom with a Furrow bee amid rain droplets #nativeplants #garden #bees #blossoms #bloomscrolling #flowers #raindrops #insects #naturephotography #photography

We took my grandson to the park, where he found the motherlode of poofy dandelions and wanted to pick then blow on them all. #dandelions #funinthepark #kids

A rather large, beige Arizona Mantis (Stagmomantis limbata) appeared after the rains crawling up the fence #Mantis #Insects #Nature #Naturephotography #Gardens

#Flowers #Gardening #Nature #Photography #Roses #Bloomscrolling #Red #Raindrops #Naturephotography After the rain, the last of the salmon colored roses glistening with tiny raindrops

For #redWednesday, a dahlia from the San Francisco Conservatory of Flower's dahlia garden with a tiny pollinator. #dahlia #flowers #nature #bloomscrolling #pollinators #gardens #naturephotography #photography

The beauty of Poison Oak leaves and berries in the fall mask their wickedly painful oils. Mt. Diablo State Park in northern California. #photography #plants #nativeplants #poisonoak #lookbutdon'ttouch #itchy #red #nature #naturephotography

Carpet of petals at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens #ColorADay #PinkMon #photographylovers #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #blueskyphotography #photography #art

Reflections on the Delaware River canal, Lambertville, NJ #stunday #photograohy #landscape #canal #reflection #eastcoastkin #trees

#rose #leaves hugging rain drops, from tiny to huge, in the early morning sunlight #raindrops #nature #garden #photography #naturephotography

A little raindrop sprinkled yellow rose to brighten your Thursday #colouraday #yellowthu #flower #flowers #bloomscrolling #flowerphotography #photography #flowersky #nature #naturephotography #bloomsky #bloom #roses #raindrops

I am out taking photos of rain drops on roses and who should show up but an adorable, multi-eyed Hairy Tufted Jumping Spider (Phidippus comatus), peeking around the rain covered petals. You never know who will say hi in the garden. #spiders #gardens #jumpingspider #photography #nature

This was my first post from October, two years ago. It set the stage for my, uh, interesting humor. (They are Pick Me Ups, BTW. Took me a bit of time to figure out. The person who placed the stickers just so has my eternal appreciation.) #firstpost #stupidhumor

For #RedWed: a blossom of "Double Delight," a favorite rose and one of the few reddish ones that I really like. #roses #gardening #flowers #bloomscrolling #ColorADay #Photography #naturephotography

My backyard rose blooms in delicate pink and orange and has the most heavenly of scents. If only we had smell-a-vision! 🌸 #bloom #flower #pinkmon #coloraday #artyear #photohour #roses #gardens #nature #bloomscrolling

For #SundayYellow, a yellow rose bud with the tiniest rain drop #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardens #raindrop #nature

#FlowersonFriday Celebrating Halloween with orange flowers: California poppies, a rose and a Bird of Paradise 🧡 Happy Halloween!🎃 #gardening #MyGarden #Flowers #gardening #HappyHalloween #gardenshour #bloomscrolling

Mt. Diablo Globe Lily or Fairy Lantern (Calochortus pulchellus), a California native wildflower found only in the area of Mt. Diablo State Park #ColorADay #YellowThu #Photography #nativeplants #naturephotography #bloomscrolling #wildflowers #flowers #lily #fairieslivehere

My neighbors have been on quite a diet while on vacation #Halloween #skeletons #vacation #diets

For #ColorADay and the theme of #BlueTue, a triple blossom on Blue Dicks (Dipterostemon capitatus), a California native wildflower found along Mitchell Canyon of Mt. Diablo State Park in northern CA. But, honestly, who gives flowers these names? #nativeplants #flowers #bloomscrolling

Made little chocolate shortbread cookies to top my pudding-whipped cream dish using a cookie cutter from cookiecutter.com. Turned out fantastic for such a tiny cutter. #cookiecutter.com #cookies #cookiecutter

For #PinkMon, a dinner plate Dahlia in glorious full bloom #photography #bloomscrolling #nature #dahlia #gardens #flowers #naturephotography

It's chocolate shortbread

A #PurpleFri Freesia #bloom, one of my favorite flowers because of its heavenly scent 💜🌱 #flower #bloomscrolling #purple #nature #gardens

For #roseWednesday, a bloom from the incomparable Filoli House and Gardens rose garden in northern California. #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardens #blossoms #loveroses

#31DaysOfGraves Day 2 The tombstone of Anna, who died at 25 yrs old in a coal mining town in northern California. #tombstone #cemetary #monochromephotography

Can't stop watching #fascinating #watchingbreadrise

#31DaysOfGraves Day 1 - the Jewett boys, both died as teens in a coal mining town in northern California in the late 1800's. #farwell #tombstone

The lovely but dangerous poison oak leaf bursts out in delicious red in the fall. Look but don't touch! #ColorADay #RedWed #leaf #fall #poisonoak #nature #nativeplants #californianativeplants

Rain drops on a blue #iris in my garden #raindrops #rain #garden #flowerpower #flowers #nature #bloomscrolling #ColorADay #BlueTue

On October 14, 2024, Governor Newson signed a bill replacing Columbus Day with #Indigenouspeoplesday, which was first celebrated in California in 1992, thereby recognizing the significant contributions that Native Americans have made to the U.S. #NoColumbusDay #theywereherefirst

A pink-edged white rose after the May rains #ColorADay #PinkMon #roses #raindrops #flowers #bloomscrolling #nature #gardens

#Insects are busy along Mitchell Canyon of Mt. Diablo State Park in northern California. Here are a Blue-eyed Darner (Rhionaescha multicolor) and an unidentified mantis. It's the little things. #nature #naturephotography #monochrome #mantis #dragonfly #littlethings