a wild Lemon Lily

Grey Squirell

White-headed Woodpecker

Acorn Woodpeckers drill holes in trees and cache acorns in these to get through adverse

Dark-eyed “Oregon” Junco

female Western Bluebird

Steller''s Jay digiscoped at Cuyamaca State Park

male Acorn Woodpecker

western-scrub-jay

Band-tailed Pigeons at the Idyllwild Nature Center

American Crow (Corvus brachyrynchos) Lake Hemet

Mountain Chickadee (Poecile gambeli) Idyllwild Nature Center

California Towhee (Pipilio fuscus) Hurkey Creek Park

Mount San Jacinto

Indians collected water

Monarch Butterfly

Anza, California, View of the Cahuilla mountains from Cahuilla road

the Cahuilla mountains

Jacumba boulders

Agave Plant

a live Southern Pacific Rattlesnake

Lake Cahuilla shoreline

A more recent Yuha Wash photo by Gary Nafis

Obsidian