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Today the yellow-skinned New Century asian pear is in full bloom. It is just in time to help pollinate the brown skinned Hosui asian pear, which is at the end of its bloom. The New Century asian pear tree wants to be a cherry tree. #BloomScrolling #Yarden #HomeOrchardA New Asian Pear tree, quite young, has many clusters of cherry-stemmed white flowers with yellow centers. The leaves are narrow and freshly green.

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My wife seeded these tomatoes indoors February 1st 😍 #Gardening #Yarden

Four juvenile tomato plants, about 6-8” tall, in medium compostable pots green to teas leaves. Some leaves are narrower than others as they’re all different varieties

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In the central valley, it’s very much Iris and California Poppy Season/ #YardenA giant Iris flower, very purple or indigo, with orange in their petal center, stands among bright orange clusters of California Poppy that are not quite open for the day. A coil of hose and a trigger sprayer is on the ground below the iris.

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After over a year of being fallowed (b/c life), our crop rows are now dressed with compost & fresh drip tape deployed. In a few weeks, planting our seedlings of peppers, tomato, eggplant, & holy basil will begin #Yarden #Gardening

Three crop rows, separated by about 1.5 feet of gravel, have fresh drip tape down their centers. A corrugated shed is open in the distance. The yard is surrounded by wood fencing and shrubs

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Natural compost, years in the making. Mostly thanks to worms & other decomposers. Time to transport some of it to our three crop rows

A dark, moist mound of ready compost next to a mound of active compost filled with organic matter and lots of coarse lignified material.

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Now blooming: Type-B “Bacon” Avocado tree. I think this is the male flower. We also have a Type-A “Mexicola” Avocado but it isn’t blooming yet. When the “Bacon” has male flowers open, the “Mexicola” has female flowers open and vice versa. Avocado tree flowers are neat #Yarden #Avocado #BloomScrollingA photo of a single avocado flower among clusters of flower buds. It is all within a thickly foliated canopy with dark greens, reds, and light yellows. The flower itself is rather understated, with tiny yellow-orange anthers in the center

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At work earlier this week, a smol fren made me jealous #FenceLizard

A brown and tan fence lizard is spread out, eyes slightly closed & chin on a wood chip, sunning itself on a gravel surface. Its spiked spine is quite visible giving the lizard a fierce though calm aura

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A Yellow-rumped Warbler was on the lookout for insects in our ‘lil nectarine tree. It was a very last minute decision to get the camera #YellowRumpedWarbler #BirdPhotography #Birds #HomeOrchard #Fujifilm #SOoC

A Yellow-rumors Warbler is perched in a leafing out nectarine tree with pink to magenta flowers that are about to fall off. The warbler’s back is to the camera as it looks almost 90° to the left, giving side eye to the photographer. Its yellow spot on its head is just visible. Its feathers are black to gray. The background is completely blurred out.

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Another daffodil #Daffodil #BloomScrolling #Yarden

A daffodil with white petals and a yellow to orange central trumpet. It’s planted in a yard with bark, gravel and river cobble. It’s sunset where a rear fence is in sun but the ground is not.

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A few glimpses of wildfire-oriented aircraft in the last weeks here near Chico, CA. They’re out training for the season. Love hearing the RJ85 (second photo) fly #Aviation #AvGeek #PlaneSpottingA C130 on approach to Willows Airport, just above the giant berm of I-5, the airport hidden behind that berm. Its red tail has a 120 on it and two of its turboprop engines can be seen. Its gear is down.An silohette of a Aero-Flite RJ85 flies overhead against a blue sky with thin, somewhat chaotic and translucent clouds. It's a bit off in the distance but its four engines and T tail are clearly visible.

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Our backyard right now with purple flowering ceanothus. The bright green shrubs are elderberries preparing to flower #BloomScrolling #Yarden

A row of tall ceanothus with dark green leaves and clusters purple flowers set between two tall elderberries with bright green leaves set against a blue sky and a wooden fence. The shrubs are pruned toward the ground, providing space for shade and keeping ladder fuels in check

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House Finch showing their spring colors #HouseFinch #BirdPhotography #Birds #Yarden #Fujifilm #SOoC

A house finch, with bright red upper body, perched on an at-capacity yellow seed feeder. Its chest is facing the camera but its head is cocked to the left, as if it is eyeing the seed port. Some one out peanuts in the bottom feeder tray

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Our “Hosui” Asian Pear tree is now blooming #HomeOrchard #Yarden #BloomScrolling

Two white open Asian pear flowers with red anthers on a young tree above a rocky path. There’s tree has several visible flower buds. There are blooming yellow daffodils in the background along with a narrow elderberry shrub and a bird bath.

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#SilentSunday #BurneyFallsMcArthur-Burney Falls flows mightily with two primary falls in the center with whitewater fed by Burney Creek and multiple smaller falls -- mostly coming from groundwater. The sun shines at the top of the falls and where their water crashes into a pool. A dozen or so people enjoy the falls from a sunny rock shore. Conifers frame the entireity of the photo, with a bit of grass on the right.

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Yesterday, Manzanitas, Daffodils, and just barely visible on the left, sage, show their spring colors. These daffodils were volunteers so the bulbs either came in with the mulch or a previous home owner planted them and later they got smothered by a lawn. #YardenA tight cluster of daffodils present their yellow flowers of trumpets surrounded by a frill while manzanita bush on the left shows off its aging light-pink colors, and a sage plant on the right shows a few purple flowers amidst lush green growth. The ground has small rock and dried up leaves.

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Somewhere near the North Fork Clackamas River on the Mount Hood National Forest in May, 2018 #Mosstodon

A vine maple, with moss draped branches, like arms, reaching the photographer. Almost as if it is climbing out of the ground. It’s surrounded by a dense stand of narrow, tall conifers . In the foreground, close to the ground, are ferns.

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This is my accidental winter moss garden. Our rear fence and winter-happy native shrubs (ceanothus and elderberry) provide ample shade & the ground rarely dries out in the winter #Moss #Yarden #Mosstodon 

A 1-2 foot wide and longer area of ground covered by moss and surrounded by small rocks. There's various pieces of wood and smaller amounts of rock in the moss.Green long stemmed moss with blunt ends grow on the ground, with various sticks and rock interspersed. There's a fly resting on a rock and there's a tiny brown mushroom just in view.

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Backyard Daffodil #BloomScrolling #Daffodil #Yarden

A bright yellow daffodil is illuminated by the sun, though its interior is in shadow of itself. The flat leaves kind of curve in and out of sun. It’s planted in a mulched area and there’s blurred gravel behind it.
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#SilentSunday

#DeathValleyNPOvercast skies, with a ribbon of blue breaking through, let some sun break through to highlight rugged mountains, brown with patche sof red, that obliquely frame the photo. Dark green shrubs, maybe mesquite, dot the landscape from near the photographer and into the distance. Some of the closer mountains have layers of dark and light rock. Those closer mountains are shadowed by clouds.

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Back in March, 2024, we went to Death Valley. It was nowhere close to this year’s reported superbloom, but it was a treat seeing the cloud shrouded desert landscape painted with yellow north of Ubehebe Crater #DeathValleyNP #BloomScrolling #Fujifilm #SOoC

A wide-angle view of an area north of Ubehebe Crater where yellow flowers carpet the valley and some hills. Clouds are low, touching the peaks of some far off mountains. In the midground, a dirt road crosses the frame in front of some endoheric basins shine, but they're not filled with water, just really freshly deposited sediment.