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Sparkle & Shine roses photographed at the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden by Glenn Franco Simmons. Please share, if so inclined. © GTFS.
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Sparkle & Shine roses photographed at the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden by Glenn Franco Simmons. Please share, if so inclined. © GTFS.
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Sparkle & Shine roses photographed at the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden by Glenn Franco Simmons. Please share, if so inclined. © GTFS.
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Cherry blossoms and a bee in Silicon Valley. Photo by Glenn Franco Simmons. Please share, if so inclined. © GTFS.
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White tulips photographed in Silicon Valley. Photo by Glenn Franco Simmons. Please share, if so inclined. © GTFS.
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Different edits of the same White Licorice rose photo. Photographed at the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden in Silicon Valley. Photos by Glenn Franco Simmons. Please share, if so inclined. © GTFS.
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A Veca Lucia dahlia with slightly different edits. Photographed at The Dahlia Garden in Golden Gate Park. Photos by Glenn Franco Simmons. Please share, if so inclined. © GTFS.
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Secret rose photographed at the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden in Silicon Valley. Photo by Glenn Franco Simmons. Please share, if so inclined. © GTFS.
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Point Lobos A Rare Big Bur Beauty
Despite my belief that Big Sur is vastly overrated, McWay Cove and McWay Falls are two of the highlights of Big Sur, but they are not unique to the Pacific Coast.
Another highlight is the Point Lobos Natural Reserve (shown above), which was just barely saved from the development that mars the Monterey Coast around Pebble Beach Drive, often with grotesque over-consumptive development.
The circular shapes in the rocks are called concretions, which are formed by erosion.
There are other coves all along the North Coast and Southern Oregon Coast, although it is highest waterfall.
Located in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, McWay Cove and Waterfall on the Big Sur Coast of California. Much of the coastline and inland is charred and burned by many fires.
The cove is one of the few highlights for me along the denuded coast.
Far superior are the Southern Oregon Coast and North Coast (Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte coasts).
Big Sur is far, far, far overrated, in my personal opinion.
I think the reason it is overrated is because of the number of magazine writers, TV crews and A-listers who travel there from the L.A. and San Francisco metropolises.
Very few of these people and crews get up to, say, the Mendocino Coast (town of Mendocino) and its quaint countryside, or the Humboldt Coast (Lost Coast, Trinidad, Patrick's Point, the lagoons) and its natural and rugged beauty.
The same could be said for the picturesque and hidden beauties of the Del Norte County Coast (Pebble Beach Drive, the lighthouse) and the Southern Oregon Coast (Boardman State Corridor with its land bridges and coves).
All of these coastlines are immensely superior to Big Sur.
Photo by Glenn Franco Simmons. © Glenn Franco Simmons.
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Playboy Roses' Brilliant Beauty
Playboy roses (don't blame me, I didn't name them) are among the most-colorful of all the thousands of roses I've photographed. These were photographed at the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden in Silicon Valley. Photos by Glenn Franco Simmons. Please share, if so inclined. © GTFS.
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Pink tulips photographed in Silicon Valley by Glenn Franco Simmons. Photos by Glenn Franco Simmons. Please share, if so inclined. © GTFS.
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Victoria Ann Dahlias' Blended Beauty
This represents all of my Victoria Ann dahlia photos at the time of this post.
The Victoria Ann dahlia is classified as a small (BB) dahlia four to six inches in diameter.
It is semi-cactus in form and it is listed as light in color, but the photos I took at The Dahlia Garden in Golden Gate Park were graced with a darker to lighter, blended purple. It was introduced in 2003 by N. Gittz.
The ADS Classification Code is 3210. This perennial requires full sun. It is deer-resistent.
You can grow it in a 3-gallon container on up or in the ground. Photos copyrighted by Glenn Franco Simmons. Please share, if so inclined.
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Peonies growing in our former Cupertino home's backyard. Photos by Glenn Franco Simmons. Photos by Glenn Franco Simmons. Please share, if so inclined. © GTFS.
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Oxalis blooms growing our former Cupertino home's backyard. The oxalis on the left was imported from The Redwood Empire, where oxalis often carpets the floors of ancient redwood groves. Photos by Glenn Franco Simmons. Please share, if so inclined. © GTFS.
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At the time this photo was taken in the mid-2010s, Olsen's Orchard was one of two remaining orchards in Silicon Valley. Olsen's had delicious cherries and another orchard had delicious apricots. It's a shame that Silicon Valley's leaders could not have saved more orchards and agricultural land. Anything for money. Photo by Glenn Franco Simmons. Please share, if so inclined. © GTFS.
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Monarch Butterflies Rest In Pacific Grove
Each late fall to mid-winter, thousands of butterflies descend upon an old grove in Pacific Grove, Calif., where they create clusters in the trees.
"While most Monarchs live only four to five weeks after they reach adulthood, the generation that overwinters in Monterey County lives up to six months," according to SeeMonterey.
The grove is one of the best places to see the butterflies, but not the only one. There are also clusters each year at Monarch Grove (also known as the Monarch Resting Area) at Natural Bridges State Park in Santa Cruz.
There are also other locations along the Big Sur Coast and up the coast near Santa Cruz where butterflies are often located; however, these are the two best public places to view the butterflies.
"The City of Pacific Grove created the butterfly sanctuary to preserve both this Monarch butterfly habitat and the opportunity to view this incredible natural display," according to SeeMonterey. "The sanctuary is free, and visitors are invited to visit, watch, admire and take Monarch butterfly photos and videos, so long as they don't touch. (Molesting a butterfly is illegal in Pacific Grove ~ the fine is $1,000.)"
Yet I used to see people cross the invisible barriers (at the time I took my photos, anyway) every single day and hour I was there, and I spent literally dozens of hours there over several butterfly seasons.
With my equipment, I could have captured much better photos of the Monarch clusters than I have, but I respect rules. Often, when people would get too close, the clusters would erupt with butterflies taking off because they viewed the human intrusion as a predator. So, please keep it safe for the butterflies, and no matter now tempting the shot: Don't molest the butterflies.
Photos by Glenn Franco Simmons. Please share, if so inclined. © GTFS.
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