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Baby Sophia..

 I have been on a break from my blog because of several reasons..one of them is the birth of our baby..a girl Sophia..now she is in month 10..I will write on the pregnancy journey and the baby in other posts..for now a photo of our cherub..

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Lake at Rancho Santa Margarita..

Oriole on agave bloom..

Sunset on the Pacific..

Hummingbird on pine..

Silk floss and the hilly chaparral of San Diego..

Crackle of burning logs in the hearth..

Morning fog, when regular things look surreal..

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Birds perched on a docked boat in Mission Bay marina........

This dog had been separated from its owner in Ocean beach..it explains the sad face..

A juvenile gull..

A sycamore snag......Woodpeckers have drilled thousands of holes on it to store acorns.........

A pair of gulls sharing the top of a pole........

The Oceanscape...after the sunset...

An elephant  metal sculpture on a hill by the Highway.........

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A bed of daisies......

Abloom coral tree..Christmas time..

Black oak in autumn attire.....Laguna Mountain Recreation Area

Callery pear blooms in my Alma mater SDSU..

A house in my Neighborhood in Irvine..

Fuel for imminnet fire...

Scars of 2003 Cedar Fire in Cuyamaca region........

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Blue birds perched on a snag......

A bee gathering nectar from a bright enelia..

A Southern magnolia cone..the ruby red seeds have started to pop out...

Lake Mission Viejo..girdles by expensive houses........and honeysuckles..

A rudy duck...with robin egg-colored bill.........

An Egyptian goose chick.....I learned its the sole survivor in its clutch...others succumbed to raptors..

A xanthophyll-rich senescent leaf....

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A mushroom poking through the dry soil.......

A decorated sycamore tree......

Grey sky ..oak, sycamore, mistletoe.......

Bamboo..

Bridalveil fall in Yosemite National Park..

Houses in the wilderness........

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A blue and gold macaw.........

VAst open sky...I guess, its at Carrizo National  monument.....

Sunset while coming back from Kings Canyon National Park.....its sad taht in millions of places around the world such mesmerizing events will be happening, and in our city clutter, we can't even see them........

Near our apartment in Irvine....the sun sets behind a house, creating silhouette of California pepper tree...

An overripe apple in a bare tree..a bird has arrived to dine on it..

Saddleback mountain behind our Mission Viejo apartment..one side is obscured by the clouds...

A sky angel......

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A totem pole spotted on the outskirts of Sequoia National Park.......

African tulips.........

A stunning yellow bells (Tecoma stans) tree spotted at Old Town historical park, San Diego......

An oak tree in Irvine regional Park, decked in holiday lights...

Precisely remember this place.....winter morning at the river Kaweah in Sequoia National Park.....

Oak and sycamore....two most dominant and favored native trees of South California...

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Dry pond...but the muddy flat is foraging ground for plovers and sandpipers..

Looks like morning glory laden with purple flowers, draping some shrub........

A giant cottonwood in winter....only a few leaves remain on its corpus.......

Millions of clams growing on the rocky shores of Neah Bay...........

African tulip flowers decaying.......

Yellow bell (Tecoma stans) blankets a lawn........