Observations by juniedoom

Please do not eat. Hallucinogenic plant, found right at the base of a cave whose inhabitants may have used the plant for a spiritual journey lasting days. Ingesting could cause fatality.

Creeping out of the side of a hiking trail.

Too cold to move! Found near the base of a eucalyptus tree around 9 am. Put back as is.

Small entire leaves, deicduous leaves, turned the whole southern edge of the montane meadow a certain shade of blue. Exteremely tasty!!!

Ponderosa pine, named after its ability to spark you pondering, flanked by two pondering adventurers, bark with convergent lady beetle, and a silhouette again the fall sunset on El Capitan

Only about a foot tall black oak coming up in foothill pine area. Showing signs of fall with the lovely yellow leaves!

Only one photo of the thousands of lady beetles i saw clustering in foothill woodland area.

Large vine/shrub making its way into Lewis Creek. Surprised to still see ripening fruits on the vine in november. Foothill woodland habitat.

Snails getting it on. This process takes four to twelve hours.

Caterpillar found in some tarps at a dune riparian scrub area. Pretty exciting looking.

Last of these crazy flowers on a cactus in Yucca valley

Fallen over, but still new upward growth on this joshua tree!

Looks like a late and tiny bloomer in the desert! I am guessing this is an aster but it was so tiny and shriveled i could barely tell what it was!

Good morning, Glory! Flowering calystegia planted last fall at Quartermaster Reach

Watched this raptor clean his kill, devour his lunch, clean his beak, defecate and fly off into the afternoon. Hawks are very skilled butchers.

Coyote stalling cars on Lincoln Blvd, hunting. Intent on hunting and unafraid of cars or humans 230pm. Yellow and red ear tags. No catch, and walked up towards West Studios and Lower Dragonfly Creek

Coyote roaming and hunting on the Fort Scott lawn in the morning. Yellow and red tag on the ears. No concern for humans near by, sauntered towards us and trotted away.