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Calla lilies

Found these in Golden Gate Park on a trip to San Francisco. We met up with my parents and toured the city, walking way too much because the streetcars were too crowded.

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Fritillaries on milkweed

I found these butterflies while hiking at Little Bennett Regional Park. A tick bit me on the same trip and I ended up having to get treated for Lyme disease.

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Dreary on the Mall

From a cold, wet walk along the National Mall last November, here’s another chapter in my ongoing effort to ignore the aperture ring.

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Benches

On our way back from the Lunar New Year Festival in Chinatown we walked through this quiet little park next the House of Ruth.

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Papery leaf

This is what our big, yellow maple leaves look like a while after they fall. They get all papery and eventually fall apart, unlike the oak leaves, which never seem to decompose.