Ugly Adorable - 321/365 Turkey vultures live all over our property. I rarely get a chance to shoot them with clear view to them because the forest is so dense. We were on a paved road and passed this fella, who did not seem to fear the cracker or the criminal in the least. He's […]
One Down - 316/365 It's mushroom season here in Santa Cruz Mountains. The forest provides a variety of mushroom species and I don't know much about any of them.
314/365 Dark-eyed Junco, a type of sparrow found all around the Pacific. I love to watch them when it rains. They flock to the ground in huge numbers foraging for seed.
Cyclamen, a popular flower grown in the winter all around the neighborhood. - 309/365 Cyclamens have a tuber, from which the flowers and roots grow. In most species, leaves come up in autumn, grow through the winter, and die in spring, then the plant goes dormant through the dry Mediterranean summer.