Gilia tricolor, 5.17.17
For Your Thursday Morning
Category: California Wildflowers
Goodnight Flower
Sierra Nevada Lupine, 8.31.17
Green + Orange
So maybe some orange added to the green would be nice?!
Poppies (I), 3.9.20
On To Mid-April!
I’ve managed to get to mid-April in my “image purge” quest. I’ve found a lot of bad images, but I’ve also found a good number that are deserving of some time and attention. Mostly it’s been great fun to go through these months of trips and walks: the memories are enough to make the quest worthwhile, but the photos I’m finding will be fun to share.
I’d share this particular one as a good night flower except, well, it’s not a flower! The plant (it’s an annual herb and this one was seen at a local park Dan and I hiked in) does have flowers, but these seed pods are the more interesting thing about them as far as I’m concerned.
You might notice there is a I by the name: you will be seeing another .. maybe as early as tomorrow. Time will tell.
Thysanocarpus (I), 4.15.19
Looking Back Some More
Okay, I’ve made it past about, oh, maybe four more shots. This is slow going at the moment. But how could I not stop and enjoy and remember this scene?
The Fence & the Landscape, 4.1.19
Looking Back
This is from this past April’s trip to see wildflowers. I’m still amazed when I look at images. They are small, I know, but there ARE a few structures in this photo. Thus, the imaginative title.
Flora, Mountains, Structures, 4.1.19
Testing an App
I was always bothered that my iPhone camera wouldn’t shoot in raw, and I’d read that the PureShot app was a good one, so I gave that a go on our trip last week. While a camera is still the best option (when I zoom in the detail isn’t great, the PureShot is definitely an improvement over the Apple camera option.
Sun on Yellow Flowers, Carrizo Plain, 4.1.19 
Trip to Carrizo Plain and Death Valley
Dan and I took a little trip this week to both the Carrizo Plain and Death Valley. I really needed this get-away, and he just finished teaching a post-retirement quarter at DeAnza so I suspect he needed it as well!
The flowers in the Carrizo area are just unreal. Truly. Even while there, it’s difficult to really comprehend. My first shot, though, was merely with the iPhone. This is before we reached the actual plain, if I understand where we were. (Dan knows for sure since he knows the area better and is the driver for most of our trip.) I loved seeing the baby blue eyes there. Just stunning!
First Shot: Wildflowers, 4.1.19 (iPhone)
Nemophila menziesii, 4.1.19
Castilleja excerta (I), 4.1.19
(Owl’s Clover)
Layia platyglossa (I), 4.1.19
(Tidy Tips)
I wasn’t the only one getting down low …
Dan in the Flower Field, 4.1.19
It’s not easy to describe the colors. It’s not easy to believe them, either. But the Phacelia were amazing and the variety of yellows unbelievable. Here are just a couple more shots. I have many more to look through, some close-ups and some not. I hope to share more soon, but I also have to start focussing again on music-making.
Wildflower Colors at Carrizo, 4.1.19
Purple, Yellow, Green, 4.1.19
Death Valley images will mostly wait for another day, but I suppose it would be wrong not to post just one. This particular morning we spotted some photographers out on the dunes. I love to shoot photographers. Peacefully, mind you. (I even wondered if perhaps this was a workshop run by a friend of ours, but I’ve not asked him yet.)
Photographers at Sunrise on the Dunes, 4.3.19