Visitors 64
Modified 7-Mar-26
Created 5-Mar-26
63 photos
Dew-covered blossoms dance in morning light. Deep in lone oak, susurrating flock harvests sustenance. Another birding day, distracted.
Rosy-fingered dawn fills the heavens as I rise. Beyond Escobar Gate, sunlight bathes Blue Oak canopy. Lowland Shooting Star!! Scattered in serpentine grassland, from road’s crest into the hollow: Baroque flowers dance in morning light – some freshly blossoming; others, pollinated, dropping petals to focus on seeding. In this transition from wet season to full springtime, other flowers rise from woodland, grassland, and chaparral: Fremont’s Star Lily; Warrior’s Plume; Wooly-fruited Lomatium; Buckbrush Ceanothus; and locally rare Turkey Pea. Goldfields herald the beginning of high spring’s blossom spectacular. Lone Valley Oak also blooms, drawing small busy birds flitting amidst tender leaves to harvest nutritious flowers. A small pond fills the hermit’s pit. Shedding dawn’s pink, everchanging sky dances above.
Down from the ridge, near sediment-rich Searsville Lake: Blue Witch blossoms. Bright orange fungus spreads spores. Crowning a supple oak twig bursting with incipient spring leaves, Anna’s Hummingbird ventures out and back, over and over, snatching insects from air.
Rosy-fingered dawn fills the heavens as I rise. Beyond Escobar Gate, sunlight bathes Blue Oak canopy. Lowland Shooting Star!! Scattered in serpentine grassland, from road’s crest into the hollow: Baroque flowers dance in morning light – some freshly blossoming; others, pollinated, dropping petals to focus on seeding. In this transition from wet season to full springtime, other flowers rise from woodland, grassland, and chaparral: Fremont’s Star Lily; Warrior’s Plume; Wooly-fruited Lomatium; Buckbrush Ceanothus; and locally rare Turkey Pea. Goldfields herald the beginning of high spring’s blossom spectacular. Lone Valley Oak also blooms, drawing small busy birds flitting amidst tender leaves to harvest nutritious flowers. A small pond fills the hermit’s pit. Shedding dawn’s pink, everchanging sky dances above.
Down from the ridge, near sediment-rich Searsville Lake: Blue Witch blossoms. Bright orange fungus spreads spores. Crowning a supple oak twig bursting with incipient spring leaves, Anna’s Hummingbird ventures out and back, over and over, snatching insects from air.
Dan Quinn