A Beechy ground squirrel perches on a mound of invasive ice-plant, hopefully eating it. In the foreground, the headland geology drops off to show the dark hole leading to a squirrel burrow, under a rocky shelf.
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#Mendocino
#MendocinoCoast
Single pink and white rhododendron flower, with sunlight glowing through from behind.
#Bloomscrolling #MendocinoCoast Botanical Gardens.
A jumble of pale pink, star-shaped blossoms with a dark pink "thumb print" on their top petal, and long stamens projecting from their centers.
#Bloomscrolling
It's rhododendron time at the #MendocinoCoast Botanical Gardens.
Pincushions
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White-edged sheet of ocean water washes up on a portion of sandy beach that is already half wet.
Shoreline. #MendocinoCoast
Kestrel on the Mendocino Headlands
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Mendocino (click for the full panorama)
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View of the Pacific Ocean from the Enchanted Forest. Mendocino Coast ca.
Pacific Ocean view from the Enchanted Forest. #mendocinocoast #forest
Hot pink, shiny blobs with some dark patches on them are attached to a gray rock, and have some beach pebbles around them. They are about two or three times the size of a wad of chewing gum.
These blobs on some tide-exposed rocks were so bright, I thought they might be human-made. I don't know what they are, but I think they're alive, and I vaguely recall that I may have asked on another occasion but forgot the answer. #MendocinoCoast #MarineLife #MarineBiology
low tide exposed seashore rocks with patches of deep red sea weed on them. The sun is almost on the horizon and reflects a line of sunlight toward me. The water is very still.
Some people holding signs, and a white dog, on a sunny sidewalk. On the edge of the picture, someone dressed in prisoner stripes also has on a red tie and a Trump head mask.
A few of the #NoKings3 #MendocinoCoast demonstrators:
Reaching towards the light
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A bit more of yesterday's outdoors perfection... your #ZenMoment...
(sound up)
#MendocinoCoast
#PuddingCreek
#MacKerricherStatePark
#SoulCleansing
Eight foot high aloe-type plants with huge dagger shaped leaves grow beside a footpath in the sunshine. One of the aloes has developed a twenty foot high flower spike that hasn't opened yet, and it looks like an enormous asparagus spear. Trees in the background help to give some scale to the plant.
Went to the #MendocinoCoast Botanical Gardens today, and out of nowhere, I started craving asparagus.
Sparrow on blackberry cane
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#blackandwhite #monochrome #ClassicMono
I’ve been reading about thousands if not millions of migrants crossing the border earlier this month. ICE and Border Patrol can do nothing about it. Some of these migrants have reached Mendocino County.
#MendocinoCoast
#Mendocino
Painted Lady-Little River AirPort-March 22, 2026
Autodialer
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#blackandwhite #monochrome #ClassicMono #streetphotography
Snowy Egret
Big River-February 2014
#MendocinoCoast
#Mendocino
A paper mache Humpback Whale breaching out of the ocean by Claire Perry.
Original oil painting of a whale & calf by Larry Foster. Fort Bragg, Ca.
Various Whale & ocean art pieces.
Whale Fest Art. All original. 💙🐋
Cobalt Art Gallery, Fort Bragg Ca.
#whales #art #mendocinocoast
Chipmunks in the Pygmy Forest at Van Damme
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The Skunk Train, aka California Western, starts on its way out of town and into the woods where they have an open air bar at Glen Blair Junction. #MendocinoCoast
Spring Ranch
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Several bright blue and white flowers viewed closely enough to see a narrow-bodied fly on one of them.
Green field of vegetation dotted with yellow and blue-white flowers in contrast to the foggy beach in the far distance. A family appears to be looking at the edge of the creek out there, that's flowing to the ocean.
#BloomScrolling #MendocinoCoast
Baby Blue-eyes, back in force, with bonus #insect
Inglenook Fen Ten Mile Dunes Preserve with the Marine Layer swirling above & the Pacific Ocean beyond.
Inglenook Fen Ten Mile Dunes Preserve.
#sanddunes #marinelayer #mendocinocoast #californialove 💙
Close look at the plant called Footsteps of Spring, with its yellow flowers clumped low into its center an its surrounding leaves starting yellow in the center and gradating shades greener to the outer layer, all very close to the ground. More of these plants are seen in the unfocused distance, like blobs of spilled paint in the grass.
Footsteps of Spring on the headlands, today. #BloomScrolling
#MendocinoCoast