It’s a new decade, and a new year- 2020! It turns out I was here at the SF Botanical Garden exactly one year ago, on Jan 12, 2019… and again today. I guess I’m a creature of habit. Mid to late January is the best time of the year to visit the SF Botanical Garden due to the magnificent magnolia blooms from the magnolia campbelli- himalayan magnolias that are so very beautiful. I also caught some birds in the garden as a bonus.
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Each year, around January, I try to visit the Stanford Cactus Garden to see the hummingbirds because they do something very interesting, they collect fibers from the various cactus in the garden, and use those fibers to build their nests. It’s very hard to capture them at this task, as they move quickly and don’t seem to like being observed.
There’s a little row of Gingko trees on the border of Mountain View and Sunnyvale- at Middlefield and Central Expressway- and every year for the past ~15 years I’ve been living here, these trees put on a beautiful, vibrantly colorful show during the fall/winter. The golden yellows are beautiful against blue skies or with the right lighting.
At Thanksgiving- I struck out on any big raptor birds in Oregon, but Grandma has a pair of hummingbirds she feeds year round. They are pretty shy, but I got a few photos of them!
