The Bakery - A Dog's Eye View

I'll have one of those,

Two of those,

Oh, wait maybe a dozen of ....

Cactus - Fill My Heart

Stanford University- Arizona Garden

Cactus - Fill My Heart

Drink Deeply and Hold my Soul

In your Fine Needles

New York Garden Dreamscape

Brooklyn Garden Light

You Paint My Daughter's Dreamscape

New York Garden Style

California Spring: Flowering Plum

Spring Flowering Plum

On the path where my pooch walks

California!

Magnolia: Nature's Origami

Ever since I watched The Oragami Revolution on PBS...

I've started seeing my favorite flowers differently!

Between the Raindrops: Vernal Pools at Stanford University

Heading into rehearse Carmina Burana at the Bing Performing Arts Center for one of several dress rehearsals the other evening, I heard a chorus of what sounded like a thousand Pacific Chorus Frogs - odd because I couldn't think of any body of water nearby. Jasper the wonderful pooch-from-Taiwan and I returned the next day to scout out the frogs home. Just off Bing, we found glorious vernal pools. As you probably know, vernal pools are temporary. The form from rain runoff when the ground is saturated, as it is by our recent crazy California rain season. Jasper and I didn't find any frogs during the day, but he thoroughly enjoyed the tasty grasses.

San Francisco Field Trip:Academy of Sciences - Golden Gate Park

The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, provides us with an indoor rainforest, macaws, fish and reptiles from around the world, and - oh yeah- an albino alligator named Claude.