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On soil in dark recess near seasonal stream.

On soil embankment above creek. Broad, transparent, delicate leaves in a frosty green, widely spaced on stem. You can kind of see the smaller dorsal leaves on some of the plants in the photo.

It looked as if she was protecting the eggs from another newt in the second photo

Observed mating.

Seen crossing the road by yellow gate, then briefly in shrubs nearby.

San Marcos Foothills Preserve

TREX burn 2023 :)

Typically orange, the yellow E. californica morph is not uncommon.

The bee is the Western Honey Bee and the subject of observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/66635075

Supposedly there are about 3,000 in the Ellwood Grove and 15,000 in the Goleta Butterfly Grove this year.

When you have a cooperative rattler, best to get a few angles...

Pulled this little fella out of a friend's metal watering can where he got stuck.

6000 feet or so, so the start of high Montane type stuff. phyllaries cobwebby....

At Lassen Peak

Locations may be somewhat roughly approximated.

Growing in lawn.

Toyon

Lemonade berry tree: in the process of budding