StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Agave #cactus (Leuchtenbergia principis) is blooming in my garden today. It's monotypic which means it's the only member of its genus. It's native to north-central Mexico (San Luis Potosi, Chihuahua). The #flowers are sweetly fragrant. 🌵🏵️ 040
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I had tickets to Bracken Cave this past weekend but stayed in San Diego to get a new kitten adjusted. Being in the presence of local wildlife ended up being rewarding as well. This is among my favorite photos I've taken of long-beaked common #dolphins (Delphinus capensis). 🐬✨ 010
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I planted a small Mexican lime #cactus (Ferocactus pilosus) years ago and this is its first time blooming. The other flowers are California fuchsia (Epilobium canum), a favorite native of our hummingbirds that seeds freely and blooms when many other locals have finished up. 051
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I got on a boat first thing yesterday hoping to get lucky after seeing that Eastern Tropical Pacific killer whales were in San Diego waters while I was in Detroit. Top Notch is teaching her calf to hunt smaller dolphins in this photo I captured with a 400mm telephoto lens on. #KillerWhales #orca 🐬 020
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 23/08/2026It's my first time blooming Homalopetalum pumilio. It was going to have three flowers, but Man Hands over here yanked one off while checking on some nearby angraecum buds. 🙄Kew says this orchid's native range is N. Central & S. Mexico to Ecuador. #orchid 071
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 16/08/2026This flight of seabirds is Vanda Green Light (vietnamica x falcata). Its buds blasted last year, so I'm extra pleased to see it this time around. It's very fragrant. #orchids 081
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This is Brassavola Crazyarachno (perrinii x appendiculata) crossed back to perrinii. It's night-fragrant as one would expect given its parentage. I picked it up at the Huntington at their fall #orchid show a couple of years ago. It grows outdoors year-round in coastal San Diego. 082
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 31/07/2026"Solset" is one of the paintings that found a new home at Comic-Con. It was inspired by Spirit rover's captures of a Mars sunset. I don't expect everyone who appreciates my work to purchase it, yet knowing someone likes it enough to put it on a wall is the ultimate compliment. #art #space 060
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The San Diego Comic-Con Art Show is at the Manchester Grand Hyatt. You don't need a badge for the con to check it out: Fri. 9AM-8PM, Sat. 9AM-6PM and Sun. 9AM-6PM. My work isn't inspired by other people's vetted intellectual property, but there's plenty to choose from that is. #art #sdcc 120
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I'm mostly ready to hang my work at the Comic-Con #Art Show tomorrow and hope that "Owl Moon VII" finds its home this year. This painting is filled with glow and was archivally framed by its maker. It was inspired by an #owl I know as all in this series are. 🪶 2123
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 14/07/2026This is one of the mixed media #paintings that will be available at the Comic-Con #Art Show that's just around the corner. It was inspired by a moonrise appreciated from our backyard here in San Diego. I framed it today using archival materials. 140
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 13/07/2026The buds on my Lepanthes telipogoniflora have blasted a few times because I wasn't home to water it, but I finally bloomed it. This #orchid is growing in a repurposed aquarium on a heat mat under LEDs with a fan mounted inside of it. It's endemic to Columbia. 394
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 06/07/2026These two Allen's hummingbirds (Selasphorus sasin) disagree that I planted enough Dudleya pulverulenta on the slope for both of them. I'll add more during the fall planting season before our rains commence. The bottom one is perched on chaparral mallow (Malacothamnus fasciculatus).🪶 050
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 17/04/2026It's International Dark Sky Week. The light pollution that wrecks our view of the night sky is less about increasing population density in many places and more about our behaviors that can be easily modified with no quality of life sacrifices. Photo by me in Channel Islands National Park. #IDSW 120
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I see that it's #NationalOrchidDay. Here are four species currently blooming in my collection: Aerangis hildebrandtii, Angraecum corrugatum, Calopogon tuberosus and Paphiopedilum hirsutissumum variety esquirolii #orchids 042
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 10/04/2026This mixed media #painting is inspired by a place I've stood in awe of Mount Fuji. I reimagined a lit bridge across the lake as foxfire (kitsunebi). Robin Street-Morris. "Procession (Kitsunebi)." Watercolor and soft pastel on 300lb cold press paper. 13" x 20" (33 × 51cm). #art #kitsune #foxfire 040
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 03/04/2026This was emailed to me this morning and I'm passing it on. morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/mapping-th...morethanjustparks.substack.comMapping the Dismantling of the U.S. Forest ServiceEvery regional office, every research station, what they protect, and what you can do to stop it. 000
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 24/03/2026I've got a lot of cacti in bloom this week, so there're many #cactus chimney #bees (complex Diadasia australis) buzzing around the garden. Here's one visiting a beavertail pricklypear (Opuntia basilaris) flower. 100
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 27/02/2026This mixed media #painting was inspired by one of two particularly impressive meteors I saw in Borrego Springs during the Perseids. ✨ Robin Street-Morris. "Desert Oasis II." Transparent watercolor and soft pastel on 300lb cold press paper. 14" x 19" (36 x 48cm). #art 081
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 18/02/2026I haven't shared one of my landscape paintings in awhile. Robin Street-Morris. "Comet with Approaching Marine Layer." Transparent watercolor and soft pastel on 300lb hot press paper. 14" x 19" (36 x 48cm). #art #comet #landscape #painting #mixedmedia #celestial 0150
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 04/02/2026I spotted this crab #spider (Mecaphesa sp.) on a Brassavola nodosa flower that's unfurling. They're ambush predators, so it's waiting for an insect to visit this #orchid. 020
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Angraecum sesquipedale ('Mount Zion' FCC/AOS x 'Star of Malagasy' FCC/AOS) is generally indoors in the living room. I've been growing this #orchid for the last five years. Its blooms produce a spicy floral evening fragrance that I enjoy very much. #flowers #angraecoids 051
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 01/02/2026There are a few species that visit the garden, but it's the Allen's #hummingbirds who most often perch on the bird of paradise buds and flowers guarding nectar sources even after the Sun has set. Occasionally I'll get to appreciate them by moonrise. 🪶#art 0308
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 20/01/2026The sunrise illuminated Oncidium Sharry Baby 'Ruby Doll' and Paphiopedilum appletonianum (hainanense) as I was brewing coffee. Sharry Baby cultivars are famous for their incredible fragrances. #orchids #flowers 0111
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Ceratocentron fesselii is back in its terrarium after getting its portrait taken. This miniature fits in the palm of my hand. I love the crystalline texture of its #flowers. This species #orchid is native to the Philippines. 161
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Much of what I've planted in the garden over the past ten years+ is for the #hummingbirds. This is Baja California bush snapdragon (Gambelia juncea) being visited by a male Anna's (Calypte anna). 🪶 2122
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 09/01/2026It's always worth it to me when I wake up early enough to appreciate and capture a #sunrise; no two are the same. Fog was blanketing the riparian area of Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve adding to the beauty. ⛅#SanDiego 041
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Tonight is the Third Annual Bat Show Pop-Up and Alternative Tentacles Holiday Party at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco from 5-10 PM. This is an exhibition of artworks inspired by Winston Smith's legendary (in the punk scene) AT bat logo. My #painting is titled "Midnight." #art 140
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 18/12/2025www.streetmorrisart.com/blogstreetmo... #birds #desertstreetmorrisart.comStreetMorrisArt 060
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 15/12/2025I was able to get out to San Diego's desert to catch two nights of the Geminid meteor shower in Borrego Springs, an International Dark Sky Community. #Geminids #meteor #space #AnzaBorrego 020
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 04/12/2025California sycamore leaves with waxing gibbous #Moon 010
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 26/11/2025I watched as many queen butterflies worked the flowers on this alkali goldenbush and were joined by what I believe to be a Boll's potter wasp. The Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Region is filled with life if one looks. 🦋 #habitat #desert #California 021
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 15/10/2025I bring Epidendrum conopseum indoors to fill the house with its nocturnal, honey-scented perfume when it's in bloom. This species #orchid is the northernmost-growing epiphytic orchid in the U.S.. I've kept two of the Florida form happy for years, but lost the Mexican one. 131
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 11/10/2025I planted California fuchsia (Epilobium canum) all over the yard for #hummingbirds like this female Anna's (Calypte anna). Pictured is the tall, 'Catalina' cultivar with bluish leaves. This native plant species is an important summer and fall food source for said birds. 🪶 090
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 17/08/2025I captured this white tern (Gygis alba) alighted on Saint Augustine by the Sea in Waikīkī. 📷 Robin Street-Morris 🪶 #BirdPhotography 0191
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Allen's hummingbirds like this guy have more or less uninvited the less skittish Anna's from the garden. I have to be very still and patient to photograph them visiting the plants, in this case a cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis) I grew just for them. #hummingbird 🪶 190
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 07/08/2025My Angraecum Conundrum (didieri x viguieri) is perfuming the night. I'm growing this miniature #orchid under LEDs in an old aquarium with a fan mounted inside of it. I took it outdoors to shoot it while enjoying the moonrise. 041
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Owls make frequent appearances in my paintings and photography. Pretty easy things we can do to help these charismatic raptors out are not use rodenticides that travel through the food web and give driving our full attention while behind the wheel. #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay 🪶🦉 192
Reposted by StreetMorrisArtCenter for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 30/07/2025LeConte’s thrashers, native to arid desert habitats of the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico, have lost nearly 70% of their U.S. population over the past 50 years. Today we petitioned to protect them under the Endangered Species Act. Learn more: biodiv.us/4lZtfku 24114
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 25/07/2025I walked through the Comic-Con #Art show yesterday morning to see everyone else's work and noticed the print of this painting had sold. It's inspired by one of my Catalina Island fox encounters in Two Harbors. #foxfriday #islandfox #sdcc25 031
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 23/07/2025The San Diego Comic-Con #Art Show in Grand Hall CD at the Manchester Hyatt will be open to visitors tomorrow at 11AM. You don't need a badge to walk through and appreciate the artists' efforts. My work looks much better in person.✨ #SDCC25 031
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 22/07/2025I combined two moments from the same night to create one #painting I'm hanging in the Comic-Con #Art Show tomorrow. One was a pair of barn owls checking out the box installed for them and the other a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch. The Sun had long set, so the rocket plume wasn't bright. #SDCC #SDCC2025 141
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 17/07/2025I planted a bunch of Dudleya pulverulenta for my #hummingbird friends and they're currently fighting over the flowers. The Allen's aren't sharing these with the Anna's so far this year. This San Diego native #succulent species also helps with slope stabilization. 🪶 #birds #pollinators 1181
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Chapparal Dreaming (Palomar to Peñasquitos) #landscape #mountains 030
Reposted by StreetMorrisArtMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/07/2025The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 called for dismantling the NOAA, which provides warnings of natural disasters, such as the deadly floods in Texas. The irony is that Heritage wanted these cuts because it’s angry that NOAA helps prove the reality of climate change--the thing causing floods. 823168907622
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 07/07/2025I often bring a firefly-inspired #painting to the Comic-Con #Art Show which is coming up and it usually goes home with someone else. Watching them twinkle is something I miss about living in the Midwest. Typically I make it back in the summer and get to appreciate them. #fireflies 4412
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 25/06/2025A Southern California Bight #sunrise. My vantagepoint for this red sky at dawn moment was Avalon looking across the Gulf of Santa #Catalina toward the mainland.☀️🌊 #LandscapePhotography 060
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Happy Solstice! Robin Street-Morris. "Canyon Sunrise." Transparent watercolor and soft pastel on 300lb cold press paper. 13" x 19" (33 x 48cm). #art #painting #Sun #sky #landscape 071
StreetMorrisArt @streetmorrisart.bsky.social · 18/06/2025This Paphiopedilum philippinense joined my #orchid collection in 2018 and is currently in bloom again. I love it and am grateful Mickey's Orchids in Florida let me talk her into sharing a division when I was in town even though it wasn't officially for sale. #orchids #SlipperOrchids #paphs 031
