I do not know what this is. But, it is pretty.

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Get to the point man!

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With four aphids just hanging around.

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Kinda cool!

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On a new root of a sprouting plant.

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When I was a child, San Diego county outback had millions of beautiful wasps. Now days we do not see so many of them. This is at The Sycamore Canyon Goodman Ranch Open area. I love it. I will be going back. The next time, I will also take my macro lens.

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In Southern California back country, like Fallbrook when I was a kid, we had these everywhere. I liked the black ones because they seemed more gentle. They also come in red. As I remember, we had about equal numbers of red and black nests. And every once in a while, they attacked each other.

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Calliope, taking a break, and watching for me to be done with whatever the heck I was doing. … "You done yet?? Oh yes, that is not an overcast day, that is because of the fires in the mountains. That is smoke.

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The legs of a newly cloned sprig.

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This is the late afternoon sun today, blotted by the smoke from the fire in Alpine. We did not see a sunset this evening, the smoke and the sea fog melded into an opaque cloud.

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Our morning walk was cloaked in the morning fog.

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Just a half hour ago. I love the night!

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USMC Bench Mark by the 2nd Engineer Battalion, with an elevation of 1942 feet above mean sea level when it was measured and marked. … I think I will go back with my GPS and see what the elevation is saying now.

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Just something else to look at along the trail.

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Up along Sycaamore Canyon Trail. It is beautiful, but it is also a place to be avoided in the heat of the day. Here we are at about 3pm, and the heat was starting to dissapate at about 90 degrees, and on its way down.

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Walking Calliope before 7 am. San Diego has some natural areas very close to the town center.

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