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