Hermit Thrush

Autumn Hummingbird

Dead Man's Foot puffball

Grape Leaves

Cormorant in water

Autumn Leaves

Sun Dog

A sun dog casting rainbow colors through high clouds above Ukiah, California

Veronica flowering along the Russian River

A spray of bright blue Veronica flowers beside the Russian River, near Lake Mendocino.

March of the coots

A flock of coots marching along the shoreline. Notice how hugely oversized their feet are for their bodies!

Autumn Oak Leaf

A newly fallen Valley Oak leaf that happened to land on an old half-rotten tree stump beside Mill Creek Pond.

California Sister butterfly

This California Sister landed on a layer of duckweed covering Mill Creek Pond. The weeds provided enough surface to keep it from getting wet while it dipped its tongue in and sipped a drink.

Grape Leaves

Sandpipers snoozing

Bittern hiding among the weeds

Great Blue Heron

Honeysuckle berries and flowers

Deer in a pasture

Red Poison Oak leaves

Sunset clouds

Quartz vein in sandstone

Jimson Weed flowers

Evening Primrose flower

Brush rabbit and quail

Dewy cobweb

Mockingbird

Maidenhair ferns

Ripe huckleberries

Fallen pine cone

Sunset spilling rainbows

Golden crowned sparrow

Ant Lion Nest

Scorpion under UV light

Scorpions fluoresce a beautiful bright blue-green under UV light.

Alligator Lizard

Manzanita Bark peeling

Ground Squirrel

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Baby chipmunk in rusty gate

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California Fuchsia in bloom

California Fuchsia or Zauschneria [Epilobium canum] blooming on Robinson Creek Road near Ukiah California.

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American dipper on the Eel River

Dippers are interesting birds -- for all that they look like the average songbird, they are actually aquatic, and feed on the bottoms of fast-moving streams.

Maple Leaves at Angelo Nature Reserve

Preying Mantis near Westport

Snail shell at Ten Mile Dunes

Creek at Van Damme State Park

Maidenhair ferns

Mountain Mahogany seed

Ripe Huckleberries

White Egret

Autumn reflections in Mill Creek Pond

Half-grown bullfrog

Smoky skies over Ukiah

Monarch Butterfly on Cow Mountain