manzanitas

The sunset fires, refracted from the cloud-driftage of the autumn sky, bathed the canyon with crimson, in which ruddy-limbed mandronos and wine-wooded manzanitas burned and smoldered.

CHAPTER XVII 2010

Here and there, in places, small twisted manzanitas were rooted precariously, but in the main, save for weeds and grass, that portion of the canon was bare.

Chapter XXVII 2010

After a stop over night and an exploration of the miniature-grand volcanic scene, we pulled on across the canyon and took the grade where the cicadas simmered audibly in the noon sunshine among the hillside manzanitas.

FOUR HORSES AND A SAILOR 2010

Again we climbed a ridge, this time riding under red-limbed madronos and manzanitas of deeper red.

Chapter 18: The Shadow of Sonoma 2010

Pepper and I made it over the mountain, through a stretch of pines, manzanitas, and red earth, then out to open country.

Haunted Honeymoon Marta Acosta 2010

Dusk was coming down on the manzanitas and chinquapin of Chester, CA and turning them gold.

Owls 2010

He slammed the truck door behind him sending a metal clangor through the manzanitas.

Owls 2010

 Twenty feet above the shoreline, the manzanitas grew close together on sloping red clay banks.

Anniversary Cruise 2010

It consists of chamise and various manzanitas that are adapted to periodic occurrence of fire.

California Coastal Chaparral Forest and Shrub Province (Bailey) 2009

Higher up, cold chaparral dominated by manzanitas are interspersed with closed-cone pine forests, Coulter pine (Pinus coulteri) woodlands, and endemic bigcone Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga macrocarpa) communities.

California montane chaparral and woodlands 2008