Flowers and plants in San Diego

Family Time

Joseph holding his 2 month old nephew, Jimmy

Photo by Rebekah Fusina. (Joseph's sister)

Becky with Jimmy

The View From Joseph's Patio



View of the courtyard from Joseph's patio
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POINT LOMA & CORONADO

Point Loma Lighthouse



The enormous third-order Fresnel lens at Point Loma lighthouse



Sailing Vessel Entering San Diego Harbor 



House in Coronado

View of Point Loma From Coronado

Hotel del Coronado



Utility Box Art in San Diego









Seen near a Burger King

Love your family. Love your enemy. Love...pants?



Moved to California

Torrey Pines State Natural preserve,
 not far from the UCSD campus
(photo: courtesy funplacescalifornia.com)

Joseph has moved to California. He accepted a post-doctorate position at the University of California - San Diego, and he has spent this past week moving all his stuff from Tucson to his new apartment in the north part of San Diego, and getting setteled in at his new job. His good friend, Bill Nye, (not "the science guy") helped with the move and accompanied him on the trip. This weekend, Joseph and Bill are back in Tucson. Joseph is taking care of some final business, and his friends are giving him a farewell party. He made a lot of friends during his five-plus years in Arizona, both at the university and at church.

There are still many photographs of beautiful Arizona yet to be posted on this blog, and I am sure that Joseph has already taken some of the San Diego area.

Mystery Fruit



Can you guess what this "mystery fruit" is?

" It's a fruit of a mammillaria cactus!"___Joseph

Desert Wildflowers #2

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'bee balm'- sage (Salvia carnosa)



blue flax (Linum lewisii)

desert hibiscus

desert chicory (Rafinesquia neomexicana)

globemallow (Sphaeralcea ambigua)

slim evening primrose (Oenothera leptocarpa)

Stained Glass Hummer



Hummingbird Gallery



From Behind



Broad-billed Humming Bird



Posing For A Portrait





Resting

Rufous Humming Bird



Side View





Desert Wildflowers

caltrop (Kallstroemia) sp



Caltrop

Desert globemallow (Sphaeralcea ambigua), pink variety

 

 

 

 

desert cotton (Gossypium thurberi)

 

 

 

 

Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens)

San Francisco

Civic Center

The rain let up just in time to catch the last light of the sun on the bridge.



Wild Rose (Northern California)

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"Joseph's Coat" climbing rose- on my patio garden __JSB

Youth Group Prayer




Juvenile praying mantis on my pepper plant._JSB

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Eucalyptus Forest, Mt. Sutro (San Francisco Bay Area)



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Flowers on the Northern California Coast

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Tiger Lily (Lilium columbianum).

There were 100s of these blooming on the roadsides in Redwood N.P.

 

 

Salal (Gaultheria shallon)

manroot "cucumber" and tendrils

Does anyone else see the image of Captain Kangaroo, just below the "cucumber?" _CB