The Natural History of Bodega Head

    Blue Coast Gilia ( Gilia capitata subsp. chamissonis ), with some open flowers and others just starting to emerge (look for the tiny pu...

    I was checking on some wildflowers in the dunes earlier this week and was noticing it seems to be a good year for many of the annuals, i...

    Close-up of a Blue Coast Gilia (Gilia capitata subsp. chamissonis) flower photographed on 29 May 2023. Purple petals and pale blue anth...

    This is an older photo from the Bodega Dunes, taken in May 2017, but I was in the dunes for a short time today (8 March 2022) and could ...

  Blue Coast Gilia ( Gilia capitata subsp. chamissonis ) just before the flowers open. Here's an earlier post about this loca...

  Beach Strawberry ( Fragaria chiloensis )   Dark-eyed Gilia ( Gilia millefoliata ) Both photographed in the Bodega Dun...

I'm thankful for many, many things.  But at the top of the list would have to be "the little things."  That phrase could be a ...