Close-up of a white bear clover flower with five slightly uneven petals and a bright yellow center, surrounded by dense fern-like green leaves. The background is softly blurred with more green foliage.

Small yellow star tulip blooming low to the ground among dry pine needles, twigs, and leaves. The flower has six pointed petals and sits beside a long green blade of grass on the forest floor.

Went through the Empire Mine trails again today and spotted two familiar spring visitors from last year: bear clover and a yellow star tulip. Always nice seeing these foothill blooms return. #EmpireMine #SierraFoothills #Wildflowers #SpringInCalifornia #NatureWalk

Spring Madia with pollinator.
#lot35 #bloomscrolling #oakwoodlands #sierrafoothills

Spotted this Pacific False Bindweed (calystegia purpurata) on my morning walk.
#sierrafoothills #lot35 #bloomscrolling #oakwoodlands

A Menzies Fiddleneck (amsinckia menziesii).
#sierrafoothills #bloomscrolling #lot35 #oakwoodlands

A patch of Chinese Houses (collinsia heterophylla).
#lot35 #oakwoodlands #bloomscrolling #sierrafoothills

Two Coastal Tidytips (layia platyglossa) amid the Owl's Clover.
#sierrafoothills #lot35 #bloomscrolling #oakwoodlands

A field of wildflowers, mostly Owl's Clover, Goldfields and Tidytips.
#sierrafoothills #lot35 #bloomscrolling #oakwoodlands

Lots of Blue Dicks (dichelostemma capitatum) this year.
#sierrafoothills #lot35 #oakwoodlands #bloomscrolling

Afternoon sun, ladybug on an olive tree.
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California blue eyed grass (sisyrinchium bellum).
#sierrafoothills #lot35 #oakwoodlands #bloomscrolling

The wildflowers are back. A field of California Goldfields (lasthenia californica).
#sierrafoothills #lot35 #oakwoodlands #bloomscrolling

Today's "From the Files" 03-05-26:

Bare Oak and Wildflowers, Sierra Foothills. Reedley, CA. 2023 #davidgardnerphotography #lightight #landscape #spring #oak #wildflowers #sierrafoothills #reedley #california #ca

Cabbage blooming
#sierrafoothills #lot35 #bloomscrolling

Looking east at sunset.
#lot35 #sierrafoothills #cloudscapes #crepuscular

Photo of a mossy rock, with a single unfurling California Poppy in the foreground.

#Mosstodon photobombed by #BloomScrolling. #SierraFoothills

Photo of some very sad looking daffodils, with the flower stalks bent over and the flowers pasted to the ground. In the close background a rapidly melting drift of heavy wet snow is visible, the remains of the cause of this floristic disaster.

Me too daffodils, me too. #BloomScrolling #SierraFoothills #CrushedByEventsBeyondOnesControl

You know, if #PGE Contractors actually did their job removing dangerous vegetation, instead of hiding on my property committing fraud, half the #SierraFoothills wouldn't be freezing without power for over 24 hours.
We've been on generator for almost 30 hours. And they never pay for the propane.

Enjoying a visit to Grass Valley #grassvalley #nevadacounty #goldcountry #sierrafoothills #sierranevada

Mt Lion with some battle scars. I was on the trail two hours earlier with Francis the dog and the camera is about 100 feet from where I've been working on brush clearing.
#wildlife #mtlion #sierrafoothills

Overnight tent companion.
#sierrafoothills #lot35 #tentlife

View from the job site this afternoon.
#sierrafoothills #lot35 #oakwoodlands #sierranevada #yosemite

They're everywhere!
#sierrafoothills #lot35 #oakwoodlands #shroomscrolling

Portrait of a Blue Oak in the fog. Thick fog all day which is unusual for this location.
#lot35 #oakwoodlands #sierrafoothills

Central Sierra snow report from Lot 35.
#sierrafoothills #lot35 #oakwoodlands #yosemite #sierranevada

A bee in the rosemary blossoms.
#bloomscrolling #lot35 #sierrafoothills

Hobby build #2 in progress.
#sierrafoothills #lot35 #hobbybuild

Bees in the rosemary
#sierrafoothills #lot35 #bloomscrolling

Breakfast companion
#sierrafoothills #lot35 #tentlife

Sunset at Lot 35 with the lights of Sonora visible near the right edge of the photo.
#sierrafoothills #lot35 #oakwoodlands #crepuscular

Sierra foothills folks—Sixteen Rivers poet Moira Magneson will be reading from In the Eye of the Elephant at Cameron Park Library this Thursday evening, September 18, 5:30 to 7:00. Open mic to follow! Get your poems on! #poetry #poetnews #poetrysky #writingcommunity #sierrafoothills