Kayaking with Cliff

                         

Notice the swallowtail butterfly in the first three shots below. It was so still for so long, that I began to doubt that it was a butterfly at all; I thought it might have been an illusion created by sticks or leaves. It never moved. I went back to work. Later, when I looked again, it was gone. But when I looked through a field guide, I saw that it was clearly a swallowtail.

"Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral."

- John Burroughs

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Bamboo shoots - notice the drops of water at the tips, pulled up from the ground

Bolsa de Pulgas, Audrey, Catalus Publicus Maximus and Whitey Ford
                     

Cool LA house

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