Beth in CA

There have been so many, but a book that I read recently and loved so much is "This Is How It Always Is" by Laurie Frankel

My (big!) adult children and their nephew and niece, my grandchildren

This Thanksgiving I am so grateful for my children and grandchildren #thanksgiving #thankful #kids #grandkids

This is my back garden in northern California, a field of poppies and Lacy Phacelia. And bees, lots of bees 😊🧡🐝

How did they get that name??

Enjoyed it very much! 📚

Nice! They are not native to California, but I love them anyway and grow them in my mostly native wildflower garden. 😊🌼

For #twoforTuesday, white/pink Bachelor's Buttons amid the usual blue buttons from my back garden this summer
#flowers #bloomscrolling #gardens #nature #naturephotography #photography #bloomsky #flowersky

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Such a sweet pop of red in the garden!

A lavender lovely on Monday
#FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Garden #Roses #PhotographersofBluesky📷 #Photography 📷

Curlycup gumweed (Grindelia squarrosa), a native wildflowers of California, for

#BlueSkyArtShow
#small
#bloomscrolling
#EastCoastKin
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#nature
#nativeplants
#Californianativeplants
#flowers

For a very late #forestFriday, here is the forest floor now that it has rained in northern California. Most of the plants are invasive but there is one native, a Pacific Snakeroot (the darker leafed plant in the center-left). #forestfloor #nativeplants #nature #naturephotography #photography

My father was the (unpaid) art director for the original Blob, which was supposed to be a serious Christian morals story. Oops.

For #yellowThurs, here is my grandson as a #bee 🐝
#grandkids #happiness

Was there last week and the creek at the picnic area at the top of Mitchell Canyon still had water. More there now, of course, after the rain. 😊

For #roseWednesday, my back garden climbing rose after the rain.
#rose #bloomscrolling #gardens #nature #naturephotography #flower #naturephotography #photography #raindrops #orange

For #nationaltakeahikeday I hiked Pine Canyon in a local regional park, northern California. A bit muddy from the recent rains, but now bursting with tiny green shoots. Unlike everywhere else, our plant life awakes in the winter. #nature #naturephotography #forest #trees #nativeplants

For #thicktrunkTuesday, here is an ancient Buckeye tree trunk from Pine Canyon in Castle Rock Regional Park in Walnut Creek, northern California
#nativeplants #buckeye #naturephotography

Extra exciting Turkey Day

For #MagentaMonday, a Farewell-to-Spring blossom with a Furrow bee amid rain droplets

#nativeplants #garden #bees #blossoms #bloomscrolling #flowers #raindrops #insects #naturephotography #photography

We took my grandson to the park, where he found the motherlode of poofy dandelions and wanted to pick then blow on them all.
#dandelions #funinthepark #kids

A rather large, beige Arizona Mantis (Stagmomantis limbata) appeared after the rains crawling up the fence
#Mantis #Insects #Nature #Naturephotography #Gardens

#Flowers #Gardening #Nature #Photography #Roses #Bloomscrolling #Red #Raindrops #Naturephotography
After the rain, the last of the salmon colored roses glistening with tiny raindrops

Took this yesterday in Mt. Diablo State Park, northern CA. Love me some Big Leaf Maples!

A star-shaped dahlia with long, dark pinky red petals and an orange center with a tiny, stripped bee or fly

For #redWednesday, a dahlia from the San Francisco Conservatory of Flower's dahlia garden with a tiny pollinator.
#dahlia #flowers #nature #bloomscrolling #pollinators #gardens #naturephotography #photography

The beauty of Poison Oak leaves and berries in the fall mask their wickedly painful oils. Mt. Diablo State Park in northern California.
#photography #plants #nativeplants #poisonoak #lookbutdon'ttouch #itchy #red #nature #naturephotography

Thank you!

Carpet of petals at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
#ColorADay #PinkMon #photographylovers #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #blueskyphotography #photography #art

Reflections on the Delaware River canal, Lambertville, NJ

#stunday #photograohy #landscape #canal #reflection #eastcoastkin #trees