Birch and Starlings

The life of an amaryllis flower

Late November in our garden!

 Nasturtium 

 Pear leaf

 Anigozanthos (Kangaroo Paw) 

"Oklahoma" Tea Rose 

Dahlia imperialis

Dahlia Imperialis

We purchased a Dahlia imperialis more than three years ago, as an experiment.  It blooms in mid to late November.  In past years, we have used it as a barometer to know when we should receive our first frost of the year, since the plant has set buds as early as Halloween and we know the frosts come soon after that.  They did not make it past the first frosts for the first couple of years. 

This year by comparison, now in late November, we have not had any freezing temperatures as of yet, and our Dahlia is, for the first time since we bought it, in bloom! 

New Zealand - March 2008

 Pohutukawa Tree (Metrosideros excelsa)

Kiwifruit vines

New Zealand "Cabbage Tree" (Cordyline australis)

Beach in Gisborne, NZ

Flower and glacier (near Girdwood, AK)

Autumn Flowers and Japanese Maple

Dahlia

Rose

Nasturtium

Camelia

Dahlia

Japanese Maple

Aerial pics flying over San Francisco Bay. (September 2016)

Still an amazing, once in a decade or two, shot!

Eschscholzia californica (California poppy) just about to open!

(This was from earlier this summer.)

Cedar Waxwings enjoying Yew berries

This is an Autumn ritual for the Cedar Waxwings.  They come in a large flock and fly from our Maple, Oak and Douglas Fir trees.  Then one or two at a time, they fly to the Yew shrub and go straight to the berries.  It is entertainment each year in late September and early October. 

The waxing gibbous moon before the Harvest moon.

The Northernmost "city" in America.

71°17′44″N 156°45′59″W: Barrow (Utqiagvik), Alaska is the northernmost borough on continental 

North America, as well as the USA. 

This is one reason why it snows in August here! 

Just wait...(a little more than) five minutes.

This was the morning of August 20th.  I went out for a quick photo shoot on the beach, near the hotel we stayed at in Utqiagvik (fka Barrow), and within a half an hour or so, the weather went from fairly sunny to cloudy to blizzard.