A vintage Victorian home in Biggs California offers a location for weddings and other special occassion events. This is one example of their beautiful gardens. For more floral images please see my gallery Mothers Garden.

A hot cloudless blue summer day on the Oroville Afterbay.

Abstractive look at a wooden birdhouse mounted on the side of a rundown building in a small town in the state of California.

Jupiter's Beard plant. For more floral images please see my gallery Mothers Garden.

After the parade farmers showed off their antique engines at a local park.

Close up abstract view of Iris garden. For more floral images please see my gallery Mothers Garden.

Close up view of an Oriental Poppy in full bloom and just before seeding. For more floral images please see my gallery Mothers Garden.

A forgotten clothes line taken over by purple thistles.

A close up look at some wild flora in a country pasture found in the rolling hills of Butte Valley California.

An upclose look at a mound of cottonwood tree cotton that had alit on the ground and cushioned wild grasses, Vetch in seed, a dried Cottonwood tree leaf.

Augustin Fresnel. As a child, he was a slow learner who showed little interest in language studies or in tests of memory. By the age of 8, he could barely read. Yet his boyhood friends, for whom he studiously determined how to increase the power o...

Magnolia liliiflora (variously known by many names, including Mulan magnolia, Purple magnolia, Red magnolia, Lily magnolia, Tulip magnolia, Jane magnolia and Woody-orchid) is a small tree native to southwest China (in Sichuan and Yunnan), but cultiva...

Wild Magnolia don't have the color range of the Asian magnolia. Native magnolia flowers are generally some tone of white: creamy yellow, greenish, or pure white. The Asheamp#65533s magnolia flowers, for example, have pink or purple markings inside th...

An old wooden boat rests under a blooming Cherry tree along the scenic Columbia River walkway in Astoria Oregon.

In order to encourage Bald Eagles and other raptor species, sand dwellers that is full time residents of the beach, construct roosts and perches from natural materials such as the numerous driftwood pieces to be found daily washed up in the tide. S...