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| Primrose Entrance |
We'd been looking forward to taking another art and photography trip next week, this time among the giant sequoias, but wildfires in the area are threatening to put the kibosh on our plans. We'd already been a little worried about recent triple-digit heat, but it looks like smoky atmospheric conditions are more likely to hold us back.
Meanwhile, we've been spared much of California's scorching temperatures here on the coast, where last night's fog horns cut through the incessant fireworks to let us know nature's air conditioner was turned on. Today the fog was dense right at the coast but the city was in full sun otherwise, cooled by a mild sea breeze.
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| Flower Patch at Garden for the Environment |
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Rock Purslane on Parnassus Heights
(The Golden Gate Bridge towers can be seen in the distance.) |
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| Rock Purslane Motherlode, Strybing Arboretum (7/6/24) |
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| This sunflower is what became of the bud I photographed on June 21st. |
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| Same Sunflower on 7/12/2024 |
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| Sunflower on 7/19/2024 |
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| Sunflower on 7/26/2024 |
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Sunflower on 8/2/2024
(I wonder if there will be any seed production. There are no other nearby sunflowers. This is on the edge of the Fuchsia Garden, on a narrow dirt trail just off Conservatory Drive East.) |
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Sunflower on 8/9/2024
(Those brown bumps in the lower right are ripened seeds. I plucked one out, and yep, it looked like a sunflower seed.) |
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Sunflower on 8/15/2024
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| Sunflower on 8/23/2024 |
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Seal Rocks in the Fog
(It was so foggy out at the farthest rock, which is outside the frame to the north, that I couldn't tell if it was still harboring a lot of pelicans. Hopefully the two pelican carcasses I saw on the beach weren't indicative of poor fishing conditions.) |
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