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As if the browns weren't bad enough, now the greens are moving in -- at least they pose better than those flitty butterflies

Love among the popcorn flowers -- coastal sulfur wings getting together on my senna didymobotria

Stare down stand off with a night moth (almost stepped on her) 90mm macro, 1/60, f11, 100 ISO

A handsome spinner outside my window this morning 55-200, 1/60, f5.6, 320 ISO

Lunch time on the milk weed

My Sisyrinchium bellum doesn't know its winter, but in SoCal, it's sometimes hard to tell

Re: Lets see your Moths & Butterflies A painted lady (Vanessa cardui) getting a last taste before the sun goes down

Turk's Cap (Malvaviscus arboreus) -- the flowers brew up a delicious tea that tastes like pink lemonade. The plant is a primary food source for the Turk's-cap White-Skipper butterfly

I think this little 1/4" spider had overdone the morning coffee, just like me -- we were both jumping and jiggling about Tamron 90mm, 1/125, f4, ISO 800

Well, this explains the leaves (or lack there of) on myCalycanthus occidentalis. . . Very camera shy, too.

One last before the wind got too strong

A few blooms from today's walk around in the drizzle. The first is a hybrid cross I did between Aristolochia gigantea and A. elegans; the flower is about 6" x 9" The next is the miniscule flower of the Carribean copper plant, Euphorbia cotinifolia. The flower head is only about 1/8" across...

Thanks. I guess I'm just feeling blue today Time for some T Bone Walker

Re: Lets see your Moths & Butterflies At first glance, a rather dull little moth, but some nice blue iridescence when it opened its wings

Trying out my new 50 -- really like those winter blooming California asters

A big black bumblebee stumbling around clerodendrum ugandense flowers like a drunken sailor That's me in his eyeball

Caught this little one just after shedding its old skin -- not a great shot, but by the time I adjusted settings, it was gone

Some random shots while out walking about today

I was out shooting some species flowers when this little fly landed and held nice and still. The flower center is about 1/4" across Tamron 90mm, 1/640, f6, ISO 100