This was in front of an office building that’s currently being remodeled as a hotel. At the time it was still open, but they’d already stopped seriously maintaining the grounds, so seeds from the landscaping trees actually had time to grow.
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Sights on a short, relaxing hike through @scbgarden last weekend
I managed to get out to the local botanical gardens again for a mild hike …
I managed to get out to the local botanical gardens again for a mild hike / photo walk. Large parts of the grounds are designed to look wild, though the plants are all grouped by category and labeled. Other parts are obviously manicured. I also have photos of a snail hidden in a rosemary bush and a lizard that…wasn’t very hidden!
Flickr Album: South Coast Botanic Garden
#Photography #nature #flowers #garden #lizard #snail #trees #spring
A deserted Parisian street on a gloomy November day, years ago.
A deserted Parisian street on a gloomy November day, years ago. I stumbled on it again while looking for my photos of Notre Dame from the same trip, and I actually like this shot better than any of the ones I took of the cathedral. The lack of scaffolding probably helped!
Caption from Instagram
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Looking up…
The timing was flocking perfect.
Lemons after the rain (digital). And the same lemons ~2 months earlier (film).
Lemons after the rain (digital). And the same lemons ~2 months earlier (film).
The potted lemon tree is still small, but it’s mature enough to produce lemons. Of course, at two feet tall, it’s only producing a crop of maybe five lemons a year.
One of the photos I took when we dragged out the old film camera was of this tree, so I keep coming back to it. It’s joined the moon and the distant LA skyline as a standard test subject!
Bottlebrush trees don’t produce air roots, do they?
Bottlebrush #trees don’t produce air roots, do they? I’m guessing this is some sort of plant parasite.
Sleeping koala at the San Diego Zoo
Photo taken at: San Diego Zoo
Sleeping koala at the San Diego Zoo a few weeks ago. At first I just wanted to zoom in on it when I realized I had a clear view, but then I noticed the frame formed by the various layers of branches.
It’s a little windy.
It’s a little windy.
Tree at sunset
Seasonal Wetlands: Summer vs Spring
Seasonal Wetlands: Summer vs Spring by Kelson Vibber
It finally occurred to me to put together a side-by-side image of the one spot I managed to take photos of on both hikes!
On the right: May in Madrona Marsh, after winter and spring rains filled up the low-lying areas of the preserve.
On the left: Late August in the same spot, after summer had dried up the pools. Despite the drought, and helped along by a couple of freak summer storms, the ground is still holding onto enough moisture that the floor of the vernal pool is covered with low greenery instead of dry grass.
I know, it’s always better to put “before” on the left, and I tried it with that layout, but it ended up looking better this way.
I returned to Madrona Marsh at the end of summer to see how much it had changed since spring.
I returned to Madrona Marsh at the end of summer to see how much it had changed since spring.
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The last of the seasonal wetlands at Madrona Marsh…
Photo taken at: Madrona Marsh Preserve and Nature Center
The last of the seasonal wetlands at Madrona Marsh, a nature preserve surrounded by suburban Torrance, California. These pools spread over the grounds each winter and spring with storm water, and dry out each summer.
And it really is surrounded by the city. Housing tracts on two sides, retail on the third, and a Target on the fourth, just a few dozen yards to the right of this spot.
#marsh #trees #nature #madrona #madronamarsh #torrance #whpmyoasis #water #california #southbay
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Fragment of a hilltop view
Seasonal wetlands at Madrona Marsh…
Photo taken at: Madrona Marsh Preserve and Nature Center
Seasonal wetlands at Madrona Marsh. Winter and spring rains fill up these shallow pools, which become home to birds, frogs, insects and more during spring and summer. By the end of summer, the pools dry up until the next year.
Rainy day windshield
Rainy day windshield. #rain #raindrops #window #tree #blur
Rising moon behind trees and a thin cloud layer.
Rising moon behind trees and a thin cloud layer. #moon #silhouette #trees
Tree line
Tree line #silhouette #trees #eucalyptus
Carpet of Yellow Flowers
There are a lot of jacaranda trees near where I work, lining the walkways through the business and hotel parks and lining the sidewalks along the street. There are also a lot of these trees, which look so similar that I assumed they were more jacarandas until the first spring I was here, when they bloomed bright yellow instead of light purple. From what I can tell, they’re Tipuana trees, also known as Pride of Bolivia trees, and despite the similarities, they aren’t closely related.
The flowers act the same, though, dropping in thick blankets as spring turns to summer.
This particular tree, sadly, is no longer there. It was ripped out this fall, as part of a massive landscaping project to convert one of the office buildings into a hotel.