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A median with marigold flower beds...Alpine, a small town near San Diego....

Chaparral...mostly scrub oaks..in the mid-day sun, the canopy is grey more, green less..Los Penasquitos canyon trail.....

Yosemite waterfall..........

Cluster of African daisy.......

Torrey Pines State beach......it was spring 2016, the bluffs were exploding with wildflowers...

Oso creek trail, Mission Viejo...a nice little nook to soak in the nature...

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The Pacific, at Point Loma.........

Tulips...

It was Halloween day..came across this guy on scooter...amusing..

Two beautiful crimson camellias gracing my garden........

A stunning jacaranda..it alone can light up a landscape..

A pelican contemplates...

A pair of lawn mushroom..as if someone has put two pancakes..

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A pair of pelicans swimming on the blue water of Lake Jennings, San Diego....

Piles of decaying sweetgum leaves....

Succulents and flowers....its spring time at the Flowers Field.....

Lake Powell..majestic is the word..

A lone gull takes in the vast view of  the Pacific, at Point Loma..

Mason Regional Park...........

A burnt snag..must have been an elegant tree, a refuge for many, when alive..

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Anza Borrego desert in spring.....I had never before enjoyed a desert so much..it had turned a paradise, almost...

Christmas time..palms wearing lights......

Plumbago and honeysuckle.........

A peacock strolls the lawns of Irvine Regional Park..........

Sweetgum leaves carpeting a lawn............

A local park........jasmines abloom in vengeance.......olive forms a silvery canopy.....

A line of eucalyptus....one has grown three-time the height of the others..biology works in a strange way......

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Remembering the summer walk along a thimbleberry-lined mud path in a conifer grove of Glacier National Park.......

An Empress tree in full floral glory............

Hardy ice bloom jostling for space...South California summer.......

Shaded woods by the Tioga Pass..we stopped by to rest on a boulder...

Finches on mulberry trees.........

An Egyptian goose chick......learnt that all of its siblings perished..its the sole survivor..

Carpet of pine needle....like to walk on this cushion and inhale the aromatic smell......

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Picnic on 4th July......on the shore of Lake Elsinore.......

Clusters of Jacaranda..........

Angeles National Forest.......that's the L.A., I like.........

Desert path......

Anza Borrego desert in Spring........

A sea hare at Bolsa Chica ecological reserve........

A bighorn sheep, Anza Borrego desert.....

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Forest hiking at Lassen National Park...

A valley on the way back from Lake Tahoe........

Mono lake..............

A jacaranda in bloom...............

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A palm grove in the midst of  arid Anza Borrego desert............

A cicada.......one of the millions making the premise of a hotel in Las Vegas noisy........

One of the apartment I lived in..........

Pear leaves carpeting the ground........

Tomatoes, ripe and ready to picked...........

A neighborhood apartment I used to hang out at.......

A corn....