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Kristie Klose, Los Padres’ fisheries biologist, hiked along a stream in Rattlesnake Canyon on the outskirts of Santa Barbara, stopping at a 2-foot-deep pool rimmed with boulders and mud.

An oval abrasion on a French bulldog’s ear was rimmed by crusty discharge.

Impossibly deep caves in somber velvets and blues are rimmed with massive coffin ships of unknown origin.

Inky wings of eyeliner rimmed her eyes.

It’s been an evolution of nearly a decade, say Zamora and Rojas, but today, their backyard boasts a deck rimmed with pots of colorful succulents and wide water-permeable paths of flagstone and river pebbles, lined with fragrant plantings of California native trees and flowering shrubs.