Regional Parks Botanical Garden, Tilden Park.

I first saw this flower in Oregon and added it to my own garden some years later. It grows from corms and self propagates. In New Zealand it is considered an environmental weed. Photographed at a school near my home.

Honeybees again, this time on Buckwheat. Amazingly busy and resourceful creatures.

All day long honeybees worked the mustard behind our tent while we stayed at Montaña de Oro. While it’s fairly easy to get photos of them, it’s harder to get nice ones. All too often, I end up with perfectly exposed photos of bee’s butts and they are not all that attractive.

One of the flowers that gives Montaña de Oro (Mountain of Gold) State Park its name is Golden Yarrow, eriophylum confertiflorum. It was blooming in abundance during our visit last week.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II + EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM, 1/125 @ f/5.6

I call it a weed only because I can’t identify it and it’s growing in a vacant lot. It’s very intricate and seems to have multiple Fibonocci patterns within.

Update: One of my vast array of visitors identified this wildflower as being in the Phacelia family. Exactly which one? I’ll need to look more closely on my way home tonight. Thanks Marianne.

Canon PowerShot S3 IS + 6.0-72.0 mm, 1/250 @ f/4

Canon EOS 5D Mark II + EF180mm f/3.5L Macro USM, 1/200 @ f/6.3
Tilden Park Botanical Garden.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II + EF180mm f/3.5L Macro USM, 1/200 @ f/6.3

I spent a few hours at the Botanic Garden in Tilden Park today and the bees were working very hard. I wish they would slow down.

We visited the Flagstaff Arboritum and had a great time. The butterflies were abundant and quite absorbed in their work, giving me a chance to get close.