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Treebeard: Red, white, and blue flowers - for no particular reason
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Treebeard: Trio of insects in Bush Poppy flower
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Treebeard: First flowers of California Coffeeberry - with a ladybug and a gall
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Treebeard: Short-awned florets of native California Brome (Bromus carinatus, Poaceae)
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Treebeard: Butterfly Mariposa Lily (Calochortus venustus, Liliaceae)
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Treebeard: Woolly Blue Curls (Trichostema lanatum, Lamiaceae)
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Treebeard: First flowers of native California Tea (Rupertia physodes, Fabaceae)
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Treebeard: Caterpillar Phacelia (Phacelia cicutaria var. hispida, Boraginaceae)
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Treebeard: Dreadlock-like catkins of a Tanbark Oak
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Treebeard: Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus, Rosaceae) in the woods
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Treebeard: Pacific Woodrush (Luzula comosa, Juncaceae)
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Treebeard: Earwig curled up in a Fairy Lantern flower
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Treebeard: Seven-spotted Lady Beetle on a California Thistle head
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Treebeard: Elegant Clarkia (Clarkia unguiculata, Onagraceae)
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Treebeard: Lady Beetle on Wedge-leaved Horkelia flower
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Treebeard: Bee Fly on Horkelia flower - genus Thevenetimyia
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Treebeard: Mexican Pink aka Indian Pink (Silene laciniata, Caryophyllaceae)
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Treebeard: White form of native California Thistle (Cirsium occidentale var. californicum)
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Treebeard: Chaparral Penstemon (Penstemon heterophyllus, Plantaginaceae)
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Treebeard: Green Lynx Spider on Sticky Snapdragon flower
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Treebeard: Flowers of Chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum) - with a face
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Treebeard: Last dandelion-like seeds on California Chicory
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Treebeard: Tiny fly in a flower of Chaparral Yucca
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Treebeard: Uncommon native False Indigo (Amorpha californica, Fabaceae)
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Treebeard: More faces in Chaparral Penstemon flowers
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Treebeard: Chaparral Penstemon - the face in the flower
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Treebeard: California Honeysuckle (Lonicera hispidula) - with drizzle drops
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Treebeard: Violet form of native California Thistle (Cirsium occidentale var. californicum)
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Treebeard: Open and closed flowers of native White Sage (Salvia apiana, Lamiaceae)
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Treebeard: Tiny caterpillars of a Variable Checkerspot butterfly on Climbing Penstemon