11" x 14" print - Wet Mountain Meadow home_decor Common Buckeye often patrols trails

Common Buckeye often patrols trails and other open areas that resemble stream beds

Aside from the American Kestrel

and features my "Foxes at the Meadow's Edge" design - printed in deep orange ink

8" x 10" print on watercolor paper faithfully reproduces my original Anna's Hummingbird watercolor painting

Ohlone Tiger Beetles are only found in a few pockets of Coastal Prairie in Santa Cruz County

11" x 14" print - Wet Mountain Meadow home_decor Common Buckeye often patrols trailsComing upon a wet meadow in the dry forests of the Western U. S. is similar to finding an oasis in the desert. A unique communtiy of plants and animals depends on the year round water there. Leopard Lillies (Lilim pardalinum) and Shooting Stars (Primula jeffreyi) both require wet places to grow. Sierra Nevada Blue Butterfly caterpillars (Plebejus podarce) eat Shooting Stars and Hunt's Bumblebee (Bombus huntii) pollinates many different flowers.