Pacific Madrone

This Arbutus menziesii (Pacific Madrone) can be found anywhere from Canada to California. It has a beautiful orange-red bark that peels away as it matures.

Dinosaur

This Australian Emu has a face only a mother could love.

Lone Oak

A lone oak tree silhouetted by the afternoon sun.

Waiting

Iä `oe e `imi ana
I nä nani o ka `aina
Eia nö la`au ma`a nei
E kali ana i kou ho`i mai

While you go seeking
Among the beauties of the land
Right here I remain
Waiting for your return.

Laguna Beach

An excellent place for swimming, surfing, skimboading, and pictures. Unbelievably blue skies and waters. Beaches like this are all we have left of the beautiful California coastline.

Rock Rose (Cistaceae)

A beautiful Rock Rose.


Plant identification by Mrs. Social Butterfly (Thank you!)

Stream

MacArthur Park

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark

All the sweet, green icing flowing down...

Someone left the cake out in the rain

I don't think that I can take it

'Cause it took so long to bake it

And I'll never have that recipe again

Oh, no!

A lost love remains here, sitting by himself, unable to forget all of the feelings shared at this park. As it gets dark, eyes begin to fill with tears (MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark). The sweet green icing begins flowing down refers to the green leaves on the trees flowing together as seen through tears. This love ended without reason (Someone left the cake out in the rain...), he will never love like this again ('Cause it took so long to bake it), and a love like this will never exist again (And I'll never have that recipe again...).

Anyone who has experienced young love can relate to this. Unpredictable, often blinding, and without mercy are probably the best ways of describing the only emotion that can feel perfect in one moment, and like the end of the world in the next.