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Gilbert & George Poster - signed and inscribed

The Fab Four! Buckwheats, Ceanothus, Manzanitas, and Sages

Publicity

River Lambert in 2011

Photos of My Dad

Presentation on California Native Shrubs for the Home Landscape

Wedding Vase from Acoma Pueblo

Ladislao Ortega - Aztec / Mayan Revival

Very large Arts & Crafts Urn / Oil Jar

Oct, 2022 Visit to New England

Goat Mountain - First Trip

Elderberry Pie Fiasco

Camping on Walker Ridge

My new place - slowly taking form!

Oakland Museum - Re-Landscape

Plants growing along the Connecticut River in Weathersfield, VT and Claremont, NH

East Bay Wilds History

Burlwood Food Container from Bhutan

Mendocino National Forest - Just North of Clear Lake

Miniature Vase - Japanese? Chinese? 18th c?

A favorite garden in Piedmont.

Small Frontyard for a Piedmont Hilltop

Robleda Ideas

The Ninth Annual National Ceramic Exhibition

Visit to New England, Spring 2021

The Oldest First Aid Kit

Small Painting of Skyskrapers, signed 'Marin'

The Heart of the Castro

Eriogonum saxatile

Repaired Chinese Vase

Canton Enamel Stacking Food Boxes

People's Republic of China Vase

A few of the paper contents of the Medical File Catalog I found

Leymus condensatus 'Canyon Prince' - Canyon Prince Wild Rye

Vitis girdiana - Desert Grape

Trichostema x 'Midnight Magic' - Midnight Magic Blue Curls

Symphiotrichum x 'Plumas Purple - Plumas Purple Aster

Claytonia sibirica - Spring Beauty 'Petrolia Pink'

Ceanothus 'Joyce Coulter' - Joyce Coulter Ceanothus

Arctostaphylos manzanita 'Mount St. Helena' - Mount St. Helena Manzanita

Largest Pacific Madrone in a Garden

Large Antique Nicho with Retablo of San Antonio de Padua

Happy Birthday Uncle Mike!!!

Walker Ridge and Bear Valley with Mauro

Duck Cove and Indian Beach - Point Reyes National Seashore with Wilson Linker

Old Painting I found on Ebay

Fort Hunter Liggett over the years.

Nicho with Retablo of San Antonio de Padua

Pleasant Hill Garden Club

Point Reyes National Seashore

Joey on various excursions

My favorite vase - by who??!

Karl Blossfeldt - Wunder in der Natur

Mount Tam Retreat

Upper Fruitvale Gets an Overhaul

Neriage / Nerikoma Vase by Banko circa 1910

Scene on Fruitvale last night.

Mystery Textile! Coverlet?

Kantha from India

Near Castle Crags State Park - July 2019

New England June/July 2019

Indian Reservoir and Walker Ridge Rd, June, 2019

Large Textile from Sumba, Indonesia

Growing Natives for Year-round Interest

Recent Photos of East Bay Wilds Native Plant Nursery

A jarlet created in 1480 - collected by sorcerers!

Early Painting by Wolf Kahn - Perhaps?

Blue Lamassu

Antique Guatemalan Fabric - Ikat

Bootjack - Marin County

Nice little 19th Century Marine Painting

Piedmont Home Infills with Natives

Huckleberry Regional Preserve, Oakland Hills with Max Serech

South Coast Ridge Rd with Tom and Bowie Law and Mauro - August, 2018

Bromus laevipes - Woodland Brome

Big Yard for a Young Family - right off Piedmont Ave in Oakland

Bhutanese Burl Dapa made from Nam

Cystopteris bulbifera - Bulblet Fragile Fern

NYC 2018

Cystopteris Mystery

Unusual Fern / Bryophyte from Fern Canyon off Rte 5 in Vermont

Vacation in NH / VT 2018

Somewhere near the Summit of Mount Eddy - Shasta County

Painted and Carved Wood Christ on a Throne

Folk Carvings from Urban Ore

East Peak of Mount Tamalpais with Sunny and Eleazur and Mauro

Antique Venus de Milo Garden Statue

Chinese Dragon Flower Pot

Alien Lesbian Salt & Pepper Shakers

Recent Mexican Finds

Small and Very Blue Satsuma Vase with Butterflies

Beautiful Vase by Art On for Robb Steck

Saltillo Serapes

Antique Chinese Birdcage

Republic Period Jar with Original Content

Large Shino Chawan

An Old Ranch Revived in the HOT part of Danville

Vancouveria crysantha - Golden Vancouveria

Collomia grandiflora - Large-flowered Collomia

Rhus aromatica - Fragrant Sumac

Aztec Tourist Ware

A few finds over the past few months.

Recent shots of East Bay Wilds Native Plant Nursery

My New Place near the nursery!

Auditorium - Oakland Wrestling News, AD Santel, Promoter

Large Imari Bowl - Japan

Maxwell Park Corner Lot - Politely Private

FOSC Presentation on Growing Natives in Containers

Textures and Colors - Fall / Winter - Bartlett Springs Rd, Lake Cty

My roots. Where i'm from.

The Secret Beach - Half Moon Bay

Arctostaphylos pajaroensis 'Paradise' - Paradise Manzanita

Calocedrus decurrens - Incense Cedar

Bartlett Springs Road - August, 2017

New Hampshire - Summer - 2017

Oakland Architecture

Some recent photos of our work - current and past projects.

Yosemite with John Greenlee

Escape to Point Reyes on a hot June Weekend.

Old Yunomi

Cedar Mountain, May 2017 with Joey

Chinese Marble-top Table

Canton Enamel Plate - Qianlong Period [1711-1799]

Chinese Jewelry Box with Jade Inserts

Unusual Stone Pendant / Gorget

20 inch Porcelain Sign of Rabbit

Lake Michigan to Puget Sound - 1914

Current Pacific Coast Hybrids in our Stock [maybe still there]

Caliente Range April 15-16, 2017

Ceanothus 'Wheeler Canyon' - Wheeler Canyon Ceanothus

Ceanothus 'Concha' - Concha Ceanothus

Ceanothus dentatus 'Bluette' - Bluette Ceanothus

Double Gourd Vase - signature unrecognized

Dripware Mug

Little Ceramic California Quail

Chiranthofremontia lenzii x - Fremontodendron Hybrid

Garden City Fruit Bowl - 1930s

Tiny Satsuma Vase

Two Little Advertising Mirrors from Spain and Germany - 1930

Japanese Laquer and Inlaid Box

Dryopteris expansa - Spreading Woodfern

Caliente Range and the Carrizo Plains - April 1 & 2, 2017

Caliente Mountain - Carrizo Plains Wildflowers - March, 2017

New England and New York - Winter - 2017

A few recent finds...

Belgian Faiencerie Thulin Crystalline Vase

Antique Chinese Food Storage Container

Beautiful Sake Set

Antique Burl Covered Box

Arctostaphylos auriculata - Mount Diablo Manzanita on Knobcone Point

Bombus vosnesenskii - Yellow-faced Bumblebee

Walking through the Bigberries in the rain!

Ceanothus arboreus - Feltleaf Ceanothus

Christmas Day with Mauro and Raul in Marin Cty

Summary Gallery of Jobs We've Done

Meteorite or Meteowrong?

The Ghost Ship

Stunning San Mateo Eichler Gets an Update

Sweetmeat Tray - Chinese Porcelain from Gump's of San Francisco

Cinelli plate from Italy

Big Sur - October, 2016

Wheel-thrown Head Planter

Vase with a Crystalline Glaze by who?

Large Garden City Urn

Summer and Fall Blooming California Native Plants

My Sister Beth's Wildflower Meadow this Summer

Otagaki Rengetsu (1791～1875)

Elegant Simplicity Inside and Out of this Mid-century Masterpiece

A Yard for Dogs and Floods in Oakland

Alameda Cottage Gets a Re-do!

A few recent fun finds

South Coast Ridge Road - May 15-16, 2016

Various shots from around the nursery over the last couple of years.

East Bay Wilds Native Plant Nursery

Sonoma and Marin with My KC, Beth, Ryan & Emily

Marcial y Rommy y Primo

Mexico March 2016

New Front Yard for Oakland View Home

Aesculus californica - Red-leaved California Buckeye

Carved Wooden Pounder - for grain or what? Africa? Pacific Islander?

Death Valley for My Birthday

Fiddlenecks on Tejon Ranch

Native Garden for a Dedicated Wildlife Gardener in Danville

Reworking Some Old Photos

MCM Flower Arranging Bowl

Eva Zeisel Hallcraft Fruitbowl on Stand

Rare Garden City Garden Urn 17" tall

Beautiful, Unsigned MCM Vase

East Bay Wilds Work at the Oakland Museum

Central San Jose - Completing the Conversion

Arctostaphylos montereyensis - Monterey Manzanita

Arctostaphylos sp. with great color in June.

Manhole and Sewer Drain Covers

Manzanita Identification Workshop with Tom Parker and Mike Vasey

Aesculus californica - California Buckeye - few favorite pics!

Alameda Naval Base - 1-31-16

Lewisia cotyledon and Dudleya gnoma - nonstop Flowering Container

Carved and Painted Timbers

Marin Headlands and Sausalito with Two Young Friends

Mount Madonna in the Middle of a Wet Winter with Mauro

A large Vase with a wax-resist design

Laughing Buddha, Hotei, Buddhai, etc..

Point Reyes 12-26-15

fixing up my new place...

Cone Peak November, 2015

Contia tenuis - Sharp-tailed Snake

Carex pansa - Dune Sedge

Freezing Cold up on Mount Diablo

Lion's Den - South Coast Ridge Road, Monterey County

Fauna on plants - particularly butterflies

Very beautiful, old uranium glass vase

Exquisite Yunomi

Gladding McBean Shell Dish

Martha Stewart's Jadeite Relish Dish

Unusual Chinese Ginger Jar

Circa 1950 Koldair Fan

Vintage Aluminum Flower Pot

Pair of Painted Vases - Chinese

1945 Chalkware Rita Hayworth - 'Gilda, are you decent?'

Sonora Pass - 2015

Beautiful, 50-Year-Old Native Landscape in Portola Valley

Monitor and Sonora Pass - September, 2015

Eriogonum arborescens - Santa Cruz Island Buckwheat

Ericameria arborescens - Golden Fleece and Pollinators

South Coast Ridge Road - Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties - Sept, 2015

Humboldt and Del Norte Counties - 8/15

Point Reyes Over the Years

Populus fremontii - Fremont Cottonwood

Gladding McBean #116 Full Set - Antique

Looking up into trees.

Small Goofus Glass Birdbath

Sphaeralceas - Globe Mallows!

Lysimachia hybrida - Lowland Yellow Loosestrife

New England - 2015

Strange Form of Pickeringia, or what?

Erynnis funeralis - Funereal Duskywing on Chorizanthe species

Serpentine Area on Southern End of South Coast Ridge Road, Monterey County

Katie's Birthday at Chez Panisse

Claytonia sibirica - Petrolia Pink Claytonia

Old Oakland, East Bay, and some San Francisco

Polk's Oakland City Directory, 1939

Good Mfg. Co. New York - San Francisco - Niagara Falls, Can. - Antique Toolbox

South Coast Ridge Road, June 2015

Old Frames in my Collection

Piptatherum miliaceum - Smilo Grass

Planting a Manzanita in the Center of the Oakland Museum

Horde of Sterling

At the Nursery This Week...

South Coast Ridge Road - May, 2015

Old Gnome - German?

30 year old Coast Live Oak in Point Richmond

realidad abstracto

Antique Japanese Bamboo Basket

Latest Finds

Miscellaneous Iphone Shots

Berberis pinnata - California Barberry

Berberis aquifolium 'Compacta' - Compacta Oregon Grape

Fremontodendron decumbens - Pine Hill Flannelbush

Studio Art Pottery Haul

Duck Cove, Point Reyes National Seashore

Arctostaphylos pungens - Pointleaf or Mexican Manzanita

Eriodictyon tomentosum - Wooly Yerba Santa

Holocarpha obconica - San Joaquin Tarweed

Very large Arctostaphylos glauca - Bigberry Manzanita in San Benito County - near Clear Creek

Oak with the tiniest oak leaves i've ever seen.

Clear Creek, San Benito County, April, 2015

Antique Bowls and Plates marked 'Spain'

Sphaeralcea Species Growing in Baja California, Mexico

Hillside Gardeners Presentation

Baja California - March, 2015

What is RACE?

South Coast Ridge Road with Gonzalo, February 21-22, 2015.

Berberis aquifolium 'Golden Abundance' - Golden Abundance Barberry

Arctostaphylos 'Louis Edmonds' - Louis Edmonds Manzanita

Garrya elliptica 'James Roof' - James Roof Silktassles at a Client's Home - February, 2015

Kitillerk Muhummad? - Mid Century Palette Knife Painting

Oakland's Beautiful Faience Tiles - Dufwin Theater

Mulberry Glazed Garden Urn

Pueblo Albumen?

Wicker Ottoman / Poof

Japanese Ainu Carved Bear

Sunday Sunrise in San Pancho

San Leandro Sanctuary

A few recent treasure finds!

Bitossi!

Pre-Colombian Textile - Ancient Chancay Textile from 1000-1450 AD

Marah fabaceus - Manroot after the Mount Diablo Fire

Small, Cobalt Blue Reticulated Porcelain Basket - Bavarian?

Hand Carved Obsidian King Pakal Sculpture. it is a beautiful copy of a sculpture of Pakal found at Palenque

Frangula californica - Coffeeberry - Unusual Form

Desert-washed Rocks

Umbellularia californica - California Bay Laurel

Arctostaphylos otayensis - Otay Manzanita

Castela emoryi - Crucifixion Thorn

Psorothamnus spinosus - Smoke Tree

Pink Sand Beaches of Andrew Molera State Park

Adenostoma sparsifolium - Red Shanks

Salton Sea, Mecca, Otay Mountain - New Years 2015 with Joey Santore

Carved Wood Guan Yu Warrior Figure Holding a 'guan yao' [Halberd]

Large, Antique, Carved, Chinese Star Gods - very heavy wood

Big Sur Dec 27-28 with Gonzalo Pablo

Simple Olla with a Green Snake Design

Urban Nature!

20 Centuries of Mexican Art, 1940, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Advisory Meeting for Planting Justice in Berkeley

The Expressionists - A Survey of their Graphic Art - text by Carl Zigrosser, George Braziller, Inc., New York, 1957

Mother of Pearl Shell Caviar Boats?

Blue Celadon Vase

Old watercolor from Mill Valley in 1892

Vintage YMCA Sign - from the Berkeley Y - 1920s? 1930s?

Bursley Ltd. Crown Pottery 'Gloria' Dripware Vase

Point Reyes with Gonzalo on an Early Winter Day

Santa Cruz with Gonzalo Pablo and Family

Mom & Dad's Visit 2014

Glazed Vase by Cherie Pottery

Manzanitas in Containers

Butterflies and Plants They Love!

Studio Art Pottery Covered Dish - unsigned

Beautiful, unsigned, covered jar from the flea market

Beautiful, vintage guache found at the Alameda Flea Market.

Toxicodendron diversiloba - Poison Oak

Atriplex lentiformis ssp. breweri - Quailbush

Native Plant Week 2015

Hesperocyparis sargentii - Sargent Cypress

Quercus lobata - Valley Oak

Diversity amongst the California Oaks

Variation among the Coffeeberries - Frangula Species

Master Gardeners Workshop

Daniel Ortega

Tonala Pottery in my Collection

Peacock Bookends

Wooden Boy Statue - Indonesian?

22 Miles to June Lodge

Carved Smoky Quartz Persimmon or Peach?

Brass Ibex on Green Granite Mounts - Bookends

Sonora Pass

KMK Pottery - West German - 1980s - Lima Pattern

Vintage and Antique Mexican Pottery I've Collected

Tiny Japanese Cups with Roosters and Dragons

Art Glass Bowl - VERY thick - Green and Yellow

Experimenting with Bonsais and Bonsai Pots I've collected

Antique Cal Art Tiles - from Richmond, CA

Cloud-footed Art Deco Pottery Bowl

Sonora Pass and Bridgeport with Gonzalo

Laquer Panels - Asian

Old Prints and Paintings I've Collected

'The Fruits of the Earth' (1911) by Edward J. Detmold'

Chinese Tile Table - found [broken] at the Alameda Flea Market

Cloud-footted Gladding McBean Bowl and Catalina Charger

Carstens Tönnieshof circa 1958

Little Brother and Little Sister - The Brothers Grimm - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham - 1917

Victorian Tile Trivet

Old faience 'Cups' probably from a fountain

Giant Bonsai Pot from China

15 old Cal Art Tiles

Spectacular day in Point Reyes

Under the Bay Trees at Sacramento Landing

Monardella villosa x purpurea - Hybrid Coyote Mint

Liken the Lichen!

SODS Survivor [Sudden Oak Death Syndrome]

Summit of Mount Diablo, 8-24-14

Strymon melinus - Gray Hairstreak laying it's eggs on an Arctostaphylos glauca var. glaucescens.

Umbellularia californica - Best of the Bays

Unsigned Bowl of Fruit Painting - Framed

a few recent finds...

Point Reyes with Gonzalo and Dani. 8-9-14

The New Streamliner Train

Upper Lola Montez Lake - 2014

Dictionaire, Encyclopedique et Biographique de L'Industrie et Des Arts Industriels - Ex libris A. Koltchak

Lupines - Best of over time...

Extra-large, iron fence post cap painted as Joe N.

Little Chinese Erotic Potion Bottle I Found

Buckwheats!

Above it All in Point Richmond

Old Religious Iconography in My Collection

Latest Finds & Treasures

Mom's 75th Birthday Surprise on May Pond

Visiting Family in New England, Summer 2014

Flora of May Pond, Washington, NH

Flora of Barber Mountain, Claremont, NH

Dictionaire, Encyclopedique et Biographique de L'Industrie et Des Arts Industriels - Ex libris A. Koltchak

older photos i had forgotten - Mendocino Coast

Aristolochia californica - California Pipe Vine

More Iphone Shots Around SF

Native Garden Makeover in Progress: Alameda Victorian

Asclepias eriocarpa - Kotolo Milkweed

Wooly Pink Curls??

What kind of Clarkia is this?

Nacimento-Ferguson Hwy and Big Sur

Guess who's been catching fish in the creek along Nacimento-Ferguson Hwy?

OLD CATHOLIC STUFF

Calochortus venustus - Butterfly Mariposa Tulip

Celeste & Brody

Hiking Amongst the BIG BOYS with my Niece, Emily

Large Peony Jar

Emily's Visit to California with her Uncle Pete

Another piece of Fat Lava

Vintage 1960s Harter Executive Office Chair

Strybing Arboretum 5-11-14

took a bunch of iphone shots in sf the other evening.

Eriogonum crocatum - Conejo Buckwheat

Things i find for the tchotchke shop i'm going to open [someday!]

Find of the Day: a nice little still-life painting by a famous philanthropist Leo Roon [1893-1983]

After the Fire: Mount Diablo 4-20-14

Hanging Stained Glass Lamp

Equisetum hyemale var. affine - Scouring Rush

Comic History of Greece from the Earliest Times to the Death of Alexander the Great by Charles M. Snyder

Mendocino April 12-13, 2014

Fremontodendron 'Ken Taylor' - Ken Taylor Flannelbush

Botanical Prints from the 1850s

Beautiful Oil or Water Jar from the 1950s or 1960s [?]

Tall Planter by Gladding McBean[?]

Sneezee Garden Statue

Very Cool Old Toolbox

California Natives as Bonsai

East Bay Wild's Garden at the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show 1914

Iris Pacific Coast Hybrids - PCH

San Francisco Flower and Garden Show 2014

Oak Woodlands East of Seaside - August, 2009

Handmade Pottery Bust - biblical? neanderthal? or just sweet and low-brow?

Giant Skillet or Dutch Oven - with cover weighs at least 150 lbs!

More Arbutus menziesii - Pacific Madrone

Mendocino!

California Condor

Bird Girl Painted Garden Statue

Interesting Mexican Terracotta Frog - Aztec Design

Saltillo Serape

Old and Naughty Lighter

Awaji Pottery - Art Deco Pottery from Japan - 1890 - 1939

Antique Squeeze Toy Elephant

Matte Green Zanesville Jardinere

Invertebrate Paleontology - 1935

Old Stickers - made in Germany

Signs of these [and other] times...

Large Matte-Green Planter

Zuni Polychrome Owl - an early piece from around 1900 [i think]

Clear Creek Management Area (CCMA)

Western Electric Fan - pre-1920

Fat Lava [scheurich] and a $2.40 Vase from Urban Ore [the berkeley dump]

Lots and lots of pots!

Arctostaphylos glauca var. glaucescens - Bigberry Manzanita [extra glaucous form]

Busted!

Amazing views from Point Richmond!

Hesperocyparis forbesii - Tecate Cypress [i think!]

Spice Cabinet - Indonesian?

Ole's Peacocks - from Peacock Ranch - Mendocino County

DUDLEYAS!!

Point Reyes National Seashore - Mount Vision

Antique Porcelain Bowls

Large and Deep Relief Tile I found

Weekend in December in Mendocino

Piedmont Tudor Gets a Major Facelift

Santa and his cool helpers dropped by to see the neighborhood kids this year.

Lidded Vase with Fishes - signed by WHO?

Cool old shelf in old blue paint [from urban ore]

Very large old toolbox i found at Urban Ore

Sunset from Emeryville

Crataegus douglassii - Black Hawthorn

Very Old Nativity Set from Mexico

Enormous Urn - Burnished Tonala / Tlaquepaque - 1920s/30s

John Thomas Biggers - mixed media on paper

Barber Mountain - where i grew up.

Connecticut River in front of my family's home

Thanksgiving in New England, 2013

Mount Vision, Point Reyes National Seashore

Lake Merritt in Oakland after the rain.

Mines Road - 11/16/13

Found Log / Bench / Burl

Cirsium occidentale - Cobweb Thistle

Large Cast-stone Planter - Early 20th Century

Tiny Accounts Book for a Minnesota Potatoe Farmer

Old Bulldog Garden Statue

Green Mansions by W. H. Hudson and illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias - 1937

Susannah Israel Sculptures at the Nursery

Very Large and Forgotten Comarostaphylis diversifolia - Summer Holly in the Berkeley Hills

Mount Diablo After the 2013 Fire

East Bay Wilds Native Plant Nursery - Latest Photos

Textures on Alameda Beach at Sunset

Milo Baker Chapter Presentation

sunday in san francisco

Chrysothamnus nauseosus - Rubber Rabbitbush

Escaping the Rim Fire - Bishop and Hwy 50 Swimming Hole

Oakland Shoreline Bike Ride with Lucy

Gathering Drift Lumber with Rafa

Hemizonia congesta - Hayfield Tarweed

Beautiful and Large Incised Bowl from Mexico

The Adventures of Tommy by H.G. Wells - 1929

Earthworms and Their Allies - 1912 - Cambridge University Press

Point Reyes 8-19-13

California Illustrated - Including a Trip Through Yellowstone Park 1892

Zauschneria 'Everett's Choice' - Everett's Choice California Fuschsia

Back 40 in the Hayward Hills - Low Maintenance Native Makeover

Alameda Point - Brutal Land Disturbance in Paradise

Eriogonum nudum 'Ella Nelson's Yellow' - Ella Nelson's Yellow Buckwheat

Patch of Natives in the Laurel District

Salvia clevelandii 'Winifred Gilman' - Winifred Gilman Cleveland Sage

Berberis fremontii - Fremont Barberry

Chrysolepis chrysophylla var. minor - Golden Chinquapin

Hedgerows - A CNPS Presentation I'm working on

Eriogonum ammeii - East Bay Wild's Buckwheat