Monarch Butterfly

Today I have a butterfly - A Monarch Butterfly (Scientific Name: Danaus plexippus). This was from the butterfly exhibit in Redding, CA. There is a wide variety, but as I was late at that place, I couldn't capture any more pictures of these beautiful insects.

Carrot Leaves

Look like carrot leaves, ain't it? Well, they are not... they are some wild poisonous variety. If you are among the people who walk down the American River Levy towards the Sac State, you'll find a lot of these during the spring time. This is Poison Hemlock (Scientific Name: Conium maculata), extremely poisonous if ingested or if the natural oils are absorbed through skin.

For more information, go to: http://kaweahoaks.com/html/poison_hemlock.html

Cloudy sky

Morning Dew - Part 3

Morning Dew - Part 2

Morning Dew - Part 1

Morning Dew...

Clouds 2

Rushing away to work when I caught them...

Spring Signs

Spring signs have started showing-up everywhere...

BTW, these are Bradford Pear (Scientific Name: Pyrus calleryana)

For more information go to: http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/species/pyca80.htm

Mistake

Sometimes, even mistakes give astonishing results... and that's when we call it DISCOVERY :) (or ART sometimes ;))

Beauty...

Beauty in Simplicity

Ice Crystals

Ice crystals on green grass...

Art

Good one, huh? Well, this also needs some skills, it's done intentionally... :))

River...

Early in the morning...

Guy West Bridge

Pretty old one... this is the Guy West Bridge in my college campus at CSUS. Kinda a replica of the Golden Gate Bridge.

American River

This is American River from the American River Access at Howe. I took this snap using my cell-phone camera, :) so not that good quality...

Snow-covered Mountains

Mountains just covered with snow... looks and feels fresh :)

Pansy

A yellow-and-black PANSY partially in the shadow

Red and Green

This was something that I caught during the last Spring... was looking good, so, captured it :D

SFO Skyline

The San Francisco skyline, far away, isn't it? :)) You can see the Bay Bridge ;)

Foresthill Bridge

This is the bridge on which the movie XXX's stunt scene was shot. Foresthill Bridge: soars 730 feet above the streambed of the American River's north fork.

Vineyards

Vineyards from the NAPA Valley

Scotch Broom

Which ones are these, my dear? :)

So finally, my darling replied :) These are Scotch Broom (Scientific Name: Cytisus scoparius)

Plants in Snow

Flowers and Fern at Night

Fern and Flowers at Night, but which ones???

Sleeping Flamingo

Surprised! Me too... what a weird way to go to sleep!!!

Bird-of-Paradise

Bird of Paradise flowers at night (Scientific name: Strelitzia reginae)

Pink Flamingoes

These come from the "Sea World" in San Diego.

Nice and Sunny for traveling...

This was taken from the car, so, can't say anything on the view-angle that I got, there was really not too much space there for getting a better view-angle :)

Out of focus...

Not bad, huh?

Gerbera

This is Gerbera (Scientific Name: Gerbera jamesonii). This flower belongs to the sunflower/daisy family and is sometimes known as African Daisy. Again thanks to my GF... :)

After hours...

After sunset and a little cloudy

Looking for something...???

Looking for something here??? Even I am... :D, but cannot find anything. Anyways, let me know if you find anything... :)

Fall Color

This is my favorite sites of fall, when all the colors are changing, looks just different... pleasant different

Half sunny, half cloudy...

Just when the clouds are about to leave, or you may say, just when the clouds are about to come :)

Daisies..

Aren't they nice ??? :D

With some help from my girl-friend :), figured out that these are OX-EYE DAISIES (Scientific name: Chrysanthemum leucanthemum)

And the yellow flower with black center is PANSY (Scientific name: Violax wittrockiana)... These have some 400 different known varieties :O... some in 2-color and some in 3-color... some even scented (Courtesy: My GF:))

Fall is around when...

Fall is around when you see such beautiful color changes on the trees around. This one is near my apartment complex which has almost all the changing colors :) Looks pretty...

Sunny Beach

It was pretty cold out there even if it looks sunny... see, the clouds are going for a refill in a line to their home :D

A Bench by the River...

There was a Bench by the River for people to sit and relax... Once the American River was flooded, the water level had gone too high... so, the Bench was in the water. Can you see it here?

Clear Sky

A clear sky with a few mini-clouds visiting...

Early Morning Frost - The stumps

This is one of the stumps grounded for fencing near the river as seen in the snap above...
and the lower one shows a close-up of the top portion of the stump... there's some frost there too :)

Early Morning Frost - The sand!!!

I was also a bit surprised when I saw this first and thought that this is worth capturing... yeah, frost on ice... well, while taking the snaps; it was 29 degrees F and for a person like me photographing with bare hands in such cold is very unusual in every-day life :)

Early Morning Frost - The grass

Lately, Sacramento has been seeing a lot of lower 30s or higher 20s in the past few mornings. Two days ago, I just thought of getting out of the heated home and check out how it is outside... and found some amazing sight... Here are some which I could capture... will be posting those for a few days now :D

Christmas Lights

This is pretty late to show, but just check out the Christmas lightings here... WOW... huge house... and awesome lights.

Sierra Valley

This is the Sierra Valley and morning 11AM... just that it's cloudy... This is the place where we had gone for skiing...

First Snow

This was some place in the El Dorado County in CA where it had just started snowing... People over there said that it was the first snow of the season over there, and I was very happy to enjoy it :)

Clouds

Ya, I agree that I should have had taken the snap without the lamp-post, but then the clouds were moving pretty fast and there was no other better possible angle to shoot the picture...

At the banks of the American River - Part 3

Same river as before, same place, different angle.... so, a different picture :D

At the banks of the American River - Part 2

Same river as before, but a different spot and a different angle...

At the banks of the American River - Part 1

One sunny day at the banks of the American River...