January 18, 2020 Family get-together for Dad's and KT's birthdays.
January 18, 2020
January 26, 2020 From a visit to the Los Angeles Zoo.
February 29, 2020 An old Farmers Insurance building in Simi Valley that had been vacant for years gets torn down for a housing project.
March 7, 2020 Pandemic panic sets in, and Target is stripped of toilet paper and paper towel.
March 7, 2020 No hand santizers, disinfectants, etc., either.
March 7, 2020 Our peach tree had some nice blooms this year. It didn't get a lot of peaches, and the squirrels beat us to them.
March 31, 2020 The painted lady butterfly migration wasn't as amazing as last year, but it was nice.
April 4, 2020 Some wildflowers along the street where I went for a walk.
April 4, 2020 Nice cactus blooms, too.
April 10, 2020 Trees along streets in our neighborhood starting to bloom.
April 11, 2020 Alstromeria in our backyard.
April 11, 2020 One of my Japanese maples.
April 11, 2020 More spring flowers.
May 14, 2020 It's a pandemic, so you've gotta bake some bread, right?
May 23, 2020 Monarch caterpillars devouring some of our milkweed. It's okay. We have the milkweed specifically for them.
May 24, 2020 My Dendrobium hainanense started out as a tiny plant, but now it's massive and puts on great shows of flowers every year.
April 25, 2020 More pandemic baking!
May 28, 2020 Considering how brightly colored the caterpillars and butterflies are, Monarch crysalises are hard to find.
June 5, 2020 In advance of a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in Simi Valley, a number of banks and shops boarded up.
June 5, 2020
June 7, 2020 A Monarch butterfly visiting our milkweed.
June 12, 2020 For a while, people in the neighborhood created some uplifting chalk messages, which we saw as we sent for walks.
July 10, 2020 My pygmy drosera put out some nice flowers.
July 10, 2020
July 30, 2020
July 10, 2020 Here are the plants. Those are small ants trapped on the leave near the top, to give a size reference.
July 14, 2020 Our first real outing since the pandemic hit. We went to meet a couple of friends in Solvang for a nice day of walking around, eating, and just hanging out. Masks and social distancing included, of course.
July 30, 2020 A nice flower on one of my Drosera plants.
July 30, 2020 A close-up of one of my Sarracenia pitchers.
July 12, 2020 A praying mantis hoping to steal a meal from my Sarracenia.
August 1, 2020
August 6, 2020 We usually eat at home, but even more so this year. Some nice flounder fillets.
October 17, 2020 The bee guards on my hummingbird feeders don't seem to be deterring the bees.
October 3, 2020
September 19, 2020 A clever praying mantis hung out on the hummingbird feeder and grabbed his lunch right out of the air.
October 14, 2020 My Byblis liniflora looking great towards the end of their season (they grow as annuals).
October 14, 2020
October 31, 2020 We ran into a couple of roadrunners on our walk. This one's companion had already crossed the road, so he or she was trying to figure out how to get around us.
October 31, 2020
October 31, 2020 Yes, they do run across the road.
November 21, 2020 I especially love the Japanese maple when the fall colors come in.
