#silentsunday epic morning mists lit by #sunrise over Sutro Ranch in #Napa CA.
#silentsunday #sunrise #napa #atlas #chaparral #wild #peak
Se i pesci non volano in California, chi appende reti da traino alle querce?
https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=38578
#licheni #funghi #alghe #piante #epifite #foresta #chaparral #california #stati uniti #ambiente #ecologia #vegetali #creature #dal mondo #reti #alberi #nordamerica #costa #simbionti #UnoScienza
#licheni #funghi #alghe #piante #epifite #foresta #chaparral #california #stati #ambiente #ecologia #vegetali #creature #dal #reti #alberi #NordAmerica #costa #simbionti #unoscienza
I'm late for #MountainMonday this week.
This is Granite Mountain, one of the dominant peaks along the Pacific Crest in San Diego County, at the transition zone from the higher elevation yellow pine woodlands and montane chaparral into the low-lying deserts.
Here it is decorated with a puffy cloud and complemented by white-flowering Ceanothus and Western Redwood, this year in May 2023.
#LandscapePhotography #SanDiego #Mountains #SouthernCalifornia #Hiking #Chaparral #Landscape
#landscape #chaparral #hiking #southerncalifornia #mountains #sandiego #landscapephotography #mountainmonday
A lush expanse of riparian #chaparral along the banks of the #SantaClaraRiver in #SantaClarita
#chaparral #santaclarariver #santaclarita #bloomscrolling
Lush expanse of riparian #chaparral #shrubland along the banks of the #SantaClaraRiver in #SantaClarita
#chaparral #shrubland #santaclarariver #santaclarita
Some nice pics of the #trail and #chaparral #flowers before I turned back this morning.
My small #bloomscrolling contribution ☺️
#bloomscrolling #flowers #chaparral #trail
This is what our Southern California chaparral & sage scrub hillsides look like right now — such a unique color palette, I love it.
The orange hair is dodder, a parasitic plant that grows on/in other plants (the variety we have here doesn't kill the host plant), the blue-green are evergreen scrub oaks, there's the tall, purplish stalks of white sage, white flower clusters of California buckwheat... and more :)
#LandscapePhotography #SanDiego #SouthernCalifornia #Chaparral #Summer #Photography
#photography #summer #chaparral #southerncalifornia #sandiego #landscapephotography
"Elfin Jungle" — wild Cucumber vine and gnarly old Scrub Oaks in lush green elfin forest of old-growth chaparral in spring; San Diego, California, May 2023.
Vertical, might need a tap/click...
From my latest blog post: https://www.alex-kunz.com/lush-green-chaparral-jungle/ (contains two more photos from that day)
#Forest #NaturePhotography #IntimateLandscape #Chaparral #SanDiego #Spring #OldGrowth
#oldgrowth #spring #sandiego #chaparral #intimatelandscape #naturephotography #forest
"The Dream That Had You"
Gloomy chaparral as clouds move in during a late November hike in the Mountain Empire region of San Diego's East County; November 2011.
More black & whites from this hike: https://www.alex-kunz.com/corte-madera-hike/
Not sure if it's dark enough for #WorldGothDay 😆 but for #MonochromeMonday it'll be fine, right? #LandscapePhotography #SouthernCalifornia #SanDiego #MoodyMonday #Chaparral
#chaparral #moodymonday #sandiego #southerncalifornia #landscapephotography #monochromemonday #worldgothday
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"Spring Interlude in Blue" — the California Lilac bloom at Daley Ranch! ❤️❤️❤️
Blog post with 7 photos:
https://www.alex-kunz.com/spring-interlude-in-blue/
#BlogPost #Spring #SouthernCalifornia #SanDiego #Chaparral #LandscapePhotography
#landscapephotography #chaparral #sandiego #southerncalifornia #spring #blogpost
California Chaparral: The Most Underrated Biome
#california #video #naturalhistory #chaparral
It was a nice day today! This is a view of the New River Mountains from near Mayer, AZ.
#HighDesert #chaparral #NewRiverMountains #nature #mountains #desert #shrubland #photo
#highdesert #chaparral #newrivermountains #nature #mountains #desert #shrubland #photo
Blog post: Dormant Shrublands Are Not Fuel
#blogpost #chaparral #southerncalifornia #wildfire #nature
@Leisureguy It’s a foggy day here. We had rain last night.Rain in the desert is special. It fills the air with the scent of chaparral bush. Some people pick chaparral and hang it in their showers for that desert rain scent.Will try that tea company. Thanks. Hope your wife found those special scissors. #desert #chaparral #rain
Rare image of me emerging from the holiday chaos:
#salamander #canative #herps #napa #chaparral #oakwoodland
A look at post-fire regrowth in a #Chaparral plant community: this place burned in both 2017 AND 2020.
#CAnative plants like bay laurel and greasewood are sprouting new shoots from root burls.
Even after two fires, there's a LOT of standing fuel.
Five years post-fire and the chaparral in Los Padres National Forest is on its way back. I challenge anyone to find a prettier smelling North American ecosystem in late December. #chaparral #Thomasfire #sage #laurel #sumac #chemise
#chaparral #thomasfire #sage #laurel #sumac #chemise
It's another #FoggyFriday (at least for me, on Mastodon — it's all clear-skied and sunny here in Southern California) so here's a solitary Torrey Pine in dense coastal fog, photographed in spring of 2017, when the coastal #chaparral — that's the shrubs in the foreground — is prettiest. You can see tiny little yellow dots there, which are the flowers of a Bush Poppy.
Prints and such: https://alexander-kunz.pixels.com/featured/torrey-pine-lost-in-fog-alexander-kunz.html
#fog #sandiego #landscapephotography #chaparral #foggyfriday
Cushing Manzanita (Arctostaphylos glandulosa ssp cushingiana) stump sprouting from a burl after the 2017 Nuns Canyon fire. Of the 4 species we have in this area, this is the only stump sprouter. It was first to resprout post fire, while the others have come back well from seed. This specimen has seen a LOT of historic fires over the years (1923, 1964 known). The Burl is about 5 feet in diameter. Has to be well over 100 years old. #floraspondence #ChaparralFire #chaparral
#floraspondence #ChaparralFire #chaparral