Sometimes the spirit is more willing than Mother Nature wants to give us. Recently Laura and I went to the U.C. Davis Arboretum, in Davis, to photograph the red buds and the wildlife it attracts. Yes, our spirits were willing to take the images, but there were hardly any red buds and birds. We did find some.

I’m guessing there might be more now. But we did find some nice scenery. I had my 55 – 200 mm lens on my Fujifilm XT3 so I did a lot of stepping back for some of these landscape shots.

We did come across a group of cormorants sitting on the shore of the creek. I focused on this one.

And, I couldn’t resist photographing flowers and more in close up.

When I needed to rest, Laura went further while I sat on a bench and people (and dog) watched.

So, our red bud search gave us a beautiful walk and a lot of photo opportunities even if we didn’t see many red buds on the trees.

10 thoughts on “In search of red buds: U.C. Davis Arboretum”

  5. So often it seems to happen that we go out with our cameras looking for one specific thing and find many other things instead! You certainly got a beautiful set of images even if they weren’t what you planned!

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  6. I first saw the redbud tree on a blog about Singapore and assumed it was some amazing tropical species I had never seen before. Then I went for a walk and about two blocks away on one side of the street was a line of redbud trees! I still assumed they were quasi-tropical though until research showed their Latin name to be Cercis canadensis. Canadian!? Not exotic at all (but still beautiful)

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