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The first lily of the summer. Bought as a single stem several years back, this lily plant has now multiplied into six through its own effort without human intervention. Perhaps I should split it this year or try to harvest some of the seed pods. For those interested, instructions are enclosed in link below. No. 6 of Colour Palette series.
The wild rugosa rose has single blooms, with five petals in a single row, while hybrid rugosa roses have double blooms -- numerous petals in an informal arrangement. homeguides.sfgate.com/rugosa-rose-67975.html
Wishing you all a wonderful and safe new week.
The rugosa rose (Rosa rugosa) [...] possesses the beautiful, fragrant, lasting blooming characteristic of the more delicate rose varieties. [...]. "Rugosa" means wrinkled in Latin, referring to the crinkly appearance of its dark green leaves.
The wild rugosa rose has single blooms, with five petals in a single row, while hybrid rugosa roses have double blooms -- numerous petals in an informal arrangement. homeguides.sfgate.com/rugosa-rose-67975.html
Photographed on a pleasant stroll in Kings Mill Park, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
The rugosa rose (Rosa rugosa) [...] possesses the beautiful, fragrant, lasting blooming characteristic of the more delicate rose varieties. [...]. "Rugosa" means wrinkled in Latin, referring to the crinkly appearance of its dark green leaves. [...]. Hybrid rugosa roses have double blooms -- numerous petals in an informal arrangement. homeguides.sfgate.com/rugosa-rose-67975.html
Many insects including butterflies have been suffering because of air pollutants, and by extension we also we suffer this effect. We will be in big trouble without the pollinators that distribute the polen to plants to form seeds and fruit.
If you want to know more about butterflies, how to help them, and more interesting stuff, visit this site is very good:
homeguides.sfgate.com/pollution-indirectly-kill-harm-plan...
This a Fritillary butterfly, another one that was left behind, this time from 2013. Right here in PA some butterflies have started to fly around, but the parks and recreation areas will have more of them around may, so next month I will packing my camera bag for the butterfly season!
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Photography is my passion, and nature photography is my favorite.
I have been in Explore for more that a hundred times, and it is an awesome experience to have your photos showcased in such a special way.
I'm in many groups, and I only add my photos to them if they are not private.
I thank your for coming today, for leaving a comment, and make a favorite of yours this photo, (if that is the case) thanks again!
The best part of this forum is the contacts and friends that I have made over the years, that have the same passion for this art that is called photography!
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Chase the morning fog at Grizzly Peak Berkeley this time. It was bit early when I predicted the fog would come to the bay. Well, I was so lucky to see it with my friends! The lucky one as one of my favorite fog shot.
#colors #fog #dreamycity #sanfrancisco #alwayssf #ABC7news #sfgate #luckysnapshot #霧 #城市 #三藩市 #海灣大橋
"Sycamore seed balls, when washed and dried, make a versatile all-natural craft material. Dye the seed balls with food coloring or nontoxic tempera paint and hang them from ribbons to make holiday ornaments. To make a holiday wreath, twist a chenille stem into a ring and use quick-dry tacky glue to attach sycamore balls around the circle. Hang the wreath from a ribbon when it is dry."
what to do with sycamore tree seed pods homeguides.sfgate.com
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My homage to Elvis Costello. This shot is dedicated to my dear departed friend Sarah Paige Baty 1961-1997, my "girl shirt" woman. Thanks for introducing me to Elvis Costello and so many other things.
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Zinnia x hybrida. La Ceja, Colombia.
Zinnia x hybrida cultivars are a cross between Zinnia elegans and Zinnia angustifolia. They have the short, compact size and profuse flowering of the former and the disease resistance of the latter. Flowers average between 2 and 3 inches in diameter.
Zinnia x hybrida is considered a dwarf group -- they have been bred to be much shorter and bushier than the species plants.
homeguides.sfgate.com/characteristics-zinnia-hybrida-9781...
All parts of the oleander shrub are poisonous, from the nectar in the flowers to the stems, twigs and leaves. Water in a vase that has held oleander flowers is toxic, and honey produced by bees that have visited the shrub may also be toxic. Burning any part of the plant will result in smoke that can cause respiratory problems.
Kilmacduagh abbey ruins, taken in the very early morning, near Gort, county Galway, Ireland. The round tower is famous for its slight lean, drawing comparisons to the tower in Pisa, the selfie crowd posing as "holding back" the tower hasn't arrived yet, but it's only a matter of time before they do.
And oh about the selfie crowd, I saw this interesting article about yet another bunch of brainless instagram victims:
www.sfgate.com/travel/article/Instagrammers-hospitalized-...
Whether you want to dabble with developing your own special strain of zinnias or simply save money at seed-buying time, saving viable seeds from the zinnia plants in your garden is quick and easy. Today’s zinnias are descended from Zinnia elegans, native zinnias found in Mexico and the southern United States. Heirloom seeds, sometimes called heritage seeds, produce offspring true to parent plants -- the flowers you grow from heirloom seeds are similar. Hybrids revert to the lineages that were crossbred during the development of the hybrid variety, and planting seeds from these flowers results in a wide range of flower types.
homeguides.sfgate.com/collect-seeds-zinnia-flowers-67541....
William Land Park
WPA Rock Garden
Sacramento, California
What Is the Difference Between a Cardoon and an Artichoke?
homeguides.sfgate.com/difference-between-cardoon-artichok....
Red Calandiva - kalanchoe Succulent. Dedicated macro lens. No Crop, No post processing. homeguides.sfgate.com/grow-calandiva-37061.html
Pink Calandiva- kalanchoe Succulent. Dedicated macro lens. No Crop, No post processing. homeguides.sfgate.com/grow-calandiva-37061.html
Zinnia x hybrida
Zinnia x hybrida cultivars are a cross between Zinnia elegans and Zinnia angustifolia. They have the short, compact size and profuse flowering of the former and the disease resistance of the latter. Flowers average between 2 and 3 inches in diameter.
Zinnia x hybrida is considered a dwarf group -- they have been bred to be much shorter and bushier than the species plants.
homeguides.sfgate.com/characteristics-zinnia-hybrida-9781...
La Ceja, Colombia.
Zinnia x hybrida cultivars are a cross between Zinnia elegans and Zinnia angustifolia. They have the short, compact size and profuse flowering of the former and the disease resistance of the latter. Flowers average between 2 and 3 inches in diameter.
Zinnia x hybrida is considered a dwarf group -- they have been bred to be much shorter and bushier than the species plants.
homeguides.sfgate.com/characteristics-zinnia-hybrida-9781...
at the sheer spectacle and enthusiasm, but most of all the music.
Taken during the Paul McCartney concert at AT & T Park, San Francisco, CA on Sat., July 10, 2010.
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/11/DDCS...
The recent steady rain in California has brought an abundance of orange poppies aka superbloom in Lake Elsinore, CA. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/superbloom-Lake-Elsinore-p...
Last nights full moon rising....step by step....
Featured on SFGate.com
blog.sfgate.com/stienstra/2013/05/28/bay-area-skys-big-show/
It was next day after full moon at Crissy field to chase the moonset moment. I have seen someone took the shot of the airplane with the moon before but I haven't get such chance ;). This was a very lucky moment that I took a shot of a pelican flying to the moon. I like the moon to align that tower in next couple more seconds. Well, until next full moon.
#moon #goldengatebridge #SFgate #luckysnapshot #pelican #月球
La Ceja, Colombia.
Zinnia x hybrida cultivars are a cross between Zinnia elegans and Zinnia angustifolia. They have the short, compact size and profuse flowering of the former and the disease resistance of the latter. Flowers average between 2 and 3 inches in diameter.
Zinnia x hybrida is considered a dwarf group -- they have been bred to be much shorter and bushier than the species plants.
homeguides.sfgate.com/characteristics-zinnia-hybrida-9781...
La Ceja, Colombia.
Zinnia x hybrida cultivars are a cross between Zinnia elegans and Zinnia angustifolia. They have the short, compact size and profuse flowering of the former and the disease resistance of the latter. Flowers average between 2 and 3 inches in diameter.
Zinnia x hybrida is considered a dwarf group -- they have been bred to be much shorter and bushier than the species plants.
homeguides.sfgate.com/characteristics-zinnia-hybrida-9781...
Among some of my favorite captures while working with the Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival to photograph some of the goings-on around San Francisco's Japantown (fun fact: one of three remaining Japantown's in the United States!) over the course of the two-week festival.
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La Ceja, Colombia.
Zinnia x hybrida cultivars are a cross between Zinnia elegans and Zinnia angustifolia. They have the short, compact size and profuse flowering of the former and the disease resistance of the latter. Flowers average between 2 and 3 inches in diameter.
Zinnia x hybrida is considered a dwarf group -- they have been bred to be much shorter and bushier than the species plants.
homeguides.sfgate.com/characteristics-zinnia-hybrida-9781...
Flower Piano, in it's 10th year, is one of San Francisco's highly anticipated annual music events next to the likes of Outside Lands, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Portola Festival, or the Stern Grove Festival. Unlike those highly produced music festivals, this one is on the low-key side where 12 pianos are placed in the 55-acre San Francisco Botanical Garden for ANYONE to play. Amateurs to professionals, kids to adults, beginners to advanced musicians, classical musicians to rock/pop musicians, pretty much anyone, come to line-up and play these pianos and thousands come out to listen in the variety of music being played in the gardens. Aside from the freeplay, scheduled programming from amazing musicians pepper the 10-days of the event.
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A daughter and father waiting for the 3rd Annual Hungry Ghost Festival (also known as the Zhongyuan or Yulan Festival) festivities to get underway on August 23rd, 2025.
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The Flower Piano Fashion Show featured the works of the City College of San Francisco's (CCSF) Fashion Department students and faculty on the ninth day of Flower Piano on September 20th, 2025.
Flower Piano, in its 10th year, is one of San Francisco's highly anticipated annual music events next to the likes of Outside Lands, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Portola Festival, or the Stern Grove Festival. Unlike those highly produced music festivals, this one is on the low-key side where 12 pianos are placed in the 55-acre San Francisco Botanical Garden for ANYONE to play. Amateurs to professionals, kids to adults, beginners to advanced musicians, classical musicians to rock/pop musicians, pretty much anyone, come to line-up and play these pianos and thousands come out to listen in the variety of music being played in the gardens. Aside from the freeplay, scheduled programming from amazing musicians pepper the 10-days of the event.
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summer roadside ruin in Sonoma.
Thanks sfgate for choosing four of my pix for the Fiickr Pickr feature this week and printing the rainy night image in the San Francisco Chronicle. Pretty sure I said Flickr is a "freeform collaboration" rather than "freedom collaboration", but it sounds ok to me anyway,
Zinnia x hybrida
Zinnia x hybrida cultivars are a cross between Zinnia elegans and Zinnia angustifolia. They have the short, compact size and profuse flowering of the former and the disease resistance of the latter. Flowers average between 2 and 3 inches in diameter.
Zinnia x hybrida is considered a dwarf group -- they have been bred to be much shorter and bushier than the species plants.
homeguides.sfgate.com/characteristics-zinnia-hybrida-9781...
I can't bear to give statistics.
go here and watch a very harrowing video of driving through a firestorm.
www.sfgate.com/news/article/Live-updates-Death-toll-climb...
more info below the video.
we're still having communication problems and the internet is slow to non-existent.
the bank was down today, doing only paper transactions.
I'm getting a very bad connection trying to get this up.
we are safe up in the upper left corner of CA.
prayers for wine country.
for the victims and their families, for the 8000+ firefighters fighting this hell.
I must add, please pray for puerto rico, too. our trusty administration is screwing them.
I just found out that today, i am the featured Flickr Photographer in the weekend entertainment section of the SF Chronicle-here is the link!
La Ceja, Colombia.
Zinnia x hybrida in my garden.
Zinnia x hybrida cultivars are a cross between Zinnia elegans and Zinnia angustifolia. They have the short, compact size and profuse flowering of the former and the disease resistance of the latter. Flowers average between 2 and 3 inches in diameter.
Zinnia x hybrida is considered a dwarf group -- they have been bred to be much shorter and bushier than the species plants.
homeguides.sfgate.com/characteristics-zinnia-hybrida-9781...
The Royal Canadian Air Force's 431 Air Demonstration Squadron, the Snowbirds, putting on a show above Alcatraz.
Although they were always on the list of participants, the Snowbirds saved San Francisco's marquee event by stepping up to headline the 2025 SF Fleet Air Show held from October 10th to the 12th after the traditional headliners, the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels, and all other U.S. military participants were forced to dropout out of the air show due to the federal shutdown. To most San Franciscans' surprise, the loss of the Blue Angels wasn't that big of deal since the Snowbirds put on an absolute show over the city.
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La Ceja, Colombia. The flowers are in my garden without an artificial arrangement.
Zinnia x hybrida cultivars are a cross between Zinnia elegans and Zinnia angustifolia. They have the short, compact size and profuse flowering of the former and the disease resistance of the latter. Flowers average between 2 and 3 inches in diameter.
Zinnia x hybrida is considered a dwarf group -- they have been bred to be much shorter and bushier than the species plants.
homeguides.sfgate.com/characteristics-zinnia-hybrida-9781...
KOHO's BonPOP 2025, the last Bay Area obon festival of the season, took place at the San Francisco Botanical Garden on August 31, 2025. The festival has its roots in the Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival where families celebrate and honor their ancestors. One of the wonderful traditions is the bon odori dance set to a variety of traditional Japanese folk music.
Vintage lens of the day: Nikkor 135mm f/2 AI-s.
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Full Moon
What a clear and calm evening to watch the full moonrise over Coit tower tonight. Totally lucky snapshot in such condition, no wind, no clouds about in perfect night :). There were many photogs at this pier tonight that may have the similar shot as this one.
#colors #fullmoon #coittower #sanfrancisco #luckysnapshot #滿月 #三藩市 #ktvu #abc7news #nbcbayarea #sfgate
Morning raining view in here ;). Can you guess where is this location?
#colors #raining #sfgate #sanfrancisco #luckysnapshot
Moonflowers other name
For more info see:
homeguides.sfgate.com/grow-morning-glories-moonflowers-to...
Magnolia, is an ancient genus, appearing before bees did. The flowers are theorized to have evolved to encourage pollination by beetles. To avoid damage from pollinating beetles, the carpels of Magnolia are extremely tough.
Unlike modern flowers, Magnolia flowers lack a distinct petal or sepal, instead bearing a tough combination of the two called tepals that open just like petals. The flowers are bisexual with numerous adnate carpels and stamens that are spirally arranged at the base of the ovary, below the pistils.
--- Wikipedia
--- homeguides.sfgate.com
Glass and acrylic mural by Emile Norman ca. 1970
www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/It-s-lively-and-colo...
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#San Francisco, #Financial District, #SFgate, #LetPhotoSpeak, #Canon, #outdoor, #heartPhoto
Sunflowers bursting with summer sunshine being sold at Faversham Market. Always a fabulous display by the Kent flower seller. homeguides.sfgate.com/sunflowers-dark-center-60802.html
Sam's Burgers has been one of my favorite places to take photos. In my opinion it's one of the most photogenic spots in North Beach as well as all of San Francisco.
brokeassstuart.com/2010/08/13/sams-pizza-and-burgers/
hoodline.com/2018/01/inside-sam-s-north-beach-s-late-nigh...
www.sfweekly.com/dining/go-eat-this-now-s-f-s-best-cheese...
www.sfgate.com/food/article/SF-Sams-Burgers-North-Beach-A...
Perry D'Andrea singing all of Frank Sinatra's hits at San Francisco's Mother's Day Night Market on May 10th, 2025.
Awarded USA Today's Best Night Market in the USA in April 2025, SF's Chinatown Night Market combined with North Beach's Night Market for a huge street spanning several city blocks.
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In my garden. La Ceja, Colombia.
Zinnia x hybrida cultivars are a cross between Zinnia elegans and Zinnia angustifolia. They have the short, compact size and profuse flowering of the former and the disease resistance of the latter. Flowers average between 2 and 3 inches in diameter.
Zinnia x hybrida is considered a dwarf group -- they have been bred to be much shorter and bushier than the species plants.
homeguides.sfgate.com/characteristics-zinnia-hybrida-9781...
Zinnia x hybrida. La Ceja, Colombia.
Zinnia x hybrida cultivars are a cross between Zinnia elegans and Zinnia angustifolia. They have the short, compact size and profuse flowering of the former and the disease resistance of the latter. Flowers average between 2 and 3 inches in diameter.
Zinnia x hybrida is considered a dwarf group -- they have been bred to be much shorter and bushier than the species plants.
homeguides.sfgate.com/characteristics-zinnia-hybrida-9781...