Corralitas Drive: Rubber Tree Fruit

Photo: Diane Edwardson, July 4, 2012.  Fruit from Rubber Trees (Ficus elastica) turns brown on the outside when ripe.  It smells a bit li...

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Corralitas Drive: Don't Judge Him By His Size

Photo: Diane Edwardson, June 11, 2012.  A very slender (my pinkie finger width), 6" long, pale green Alligator Lizard was hiding und...

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Corralitas Drive: Engineering Marvel

Photo: Diane Edwardson, May 16, 2012.  I had no idea how much detailed structural work went into dragonfly wings.  (Click on photo to enl...

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Corralitas Drive: That's Not Rotting Meat You Smell, It's My Backyard

Photo: Diane Edwardson, April 30, 2012.  A 3" long Stinkhorn Fungus (Lysurus mokusin) brought the faint scent of rotting meat and fl...

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Corralitas Drive: Rain Brings Another Stinkhorn Fungus, Rainfall Totals

Photo: Diane Edwardson, April 26, 2012.  An entirely new Stinkhorn Fungus popped up with last night's rain.  I had never seen this 1.25...

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Corralitas Drive: Stinkhorn Fungus

Photo: Diane Edwardson, April 10, 2012.  Investigating the smell of dead animal near my back door, I knew to search for a Stinkhorn Fungus. ...

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Corralitas Drive: Flock Of Unusual Birds *Identified

Photo: Diane Edwardson, March 31, 2012.  As I was heading out the back door (with a camera in my pocket), a flock of birds was making quite ...

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Corralitas Drive: Giant Panda Preserve

Photo: Diane Edwardson, March 31, 2012, 6:03 PM.  Giant Pandas are shy creatures (even in captivity, it's hard to get a clear photo).  T...

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Corralitas Drive: Rainfall Totals

Photo: Diane Edwardson, March 31, 2012.  There haven't been too many mushrooms so far this year.  (Click on photo to enlarge.) We're...

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Corralitas Drive: Spring Flowers *Identifed

Photo: Diane Edwardson, March 13, 2012.  I have no idea what these are, other than damn scenic.  (Click on photo to enlarge.) *UPDATE 3-26-1...

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Corralitas Drive: Juvenile Alligator Lizard

Photo: Gary Vlahakis, March 3, 2012.  The lizard's body was not quite 2 inches long, but his tail was more than twice as long as his bo...

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Corralitas Drive: Allergy Hell

Photo: Diane Edwardson, March 3, 2012.  Each time the tree trimmer even touched the pine tree, you could see the tree exploding its pollen a...

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Corralitas Drive: Gargoyle

Photo: Diane Edwardson, February 20, 2012.  Just a little focused, Puddy keeps watch from one of his favorite neighborhood perches.  (Click ...

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Corralitas Drive: Red Tailed Hawk

Photo: Diane Edwardson, January 21, 2012.   After last week's rain, a Red Tailed Hawk was drying himself high atop a neighbor's euca...

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Corralitas Drive: Questioning My Rain Gauge

Photo: Diane Edwardson, January 21, 2012.  Wet weather didn't stop bees from pollinating the Foxtail Agaves on Corralitas Drive.  (Click...

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Corralitas Drive: Salamander

Photo: Diane Edwardson, January 12, 2012.  While moving plants in a shady part of the garden, a neighbor found a 3" salamander.  (Click...

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Red Car Property: Jacarandas Blooming In May, Stuff You Missed This Year

Photo: Diane Edwardson, May 29, 2011.  In May, we were so busy with public staircases, Red Car Trolley history, hawks, snakes and moles, we ...

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Corralitas Drive: Is That Jesus Or The Virgin Mary In The Bougainvillea? Merry Christmas!

Photo: Diane Edwardson, December 10, 2011.  Christmas came early when an image appeared in the Bougainvillea petal earlier this month.  It...

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Lake View Ave: Christmas Cactus

Photo: Diane Edwardson, November 29, 2011. Happy Holidays.  (Click on photo to enlarge.) 

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Corralitas Drive: Wagonload Of Horticultural Madness, Stuff You Missed This Year

Photo: Diane Edwardson, February 9, 2011. (Click on photo to enlarge.) We're reviewing 2011 photos you missed out on, because we simply ...

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