Monthly Archives: April 2022

Multitasking Naturally

Header Image: Swamp Chaos This is a follow-up to our last post about flowers. There was a tremendous outcry from a massive amount of our followers protesting the fact no bird images were included in the entry. Okay, so there was only one complaint about a post with no birds. Okay, so it wasn’t really a complaint, more of a “note”. Anyhow, our trip to Colt Creek State Park recently did provide… Read More

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, bar-winged skimmer, blue dasher, cattle egret, cedar waxwing, colt creek state park, dorantes longtail, eastern bluebird, eastern pondhawk, groundselbush beetle, gulf fritillary, halloween pennant, little blue heron, ornate bella moth, palm warbler, phaon crescent, red-shouldered hawk, red-winged blackbird, white-tailed deer, wild turkey

Spring Floral Collection

Header Image: Field of Purple Passionflowers We spent a couple of hours the other day ambling through one of our our favorite venues, Colt Creek State Park. Twenty minutes from the house, it is an easy decision to go often. Located on the edge of the vast Green Swamp, the habitat of pine and mixed hardwood forest, a couple of lakes, a couple of creeks, a bit of wetland, some open grassy… Read More

Category: Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bulltongue arrowhead, camphorweed, common yellow woodsorrel, cutleaf evening primrose, florida hedgenettle, gulf fritillary, lyreleaf sage, mexican pricklypoppy, oakleaf fleabane, purple passionflower, purple thistle, small venus' looking-glass, spiny sowthistle, western honey bee

All Natural Ingredients

Header Image: White-eyed Vireo So many things to do! The garage really needs to be sorted out, the extra bedroom looks like the aftermath of a craft warehouse explosion, bags of donation items need to be hauled away, a couple of small trees are awaiting excavation, the birding-mobile is overdue for an oil change — where, oh where, to begin? Sunrise in the forest is so quiet and peaceful. In early spring,… Read More

Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue dasher, damselfly, dragonfly, eastern pondhawk, rambur's forktail, red-bellied woodpecker, red-tailed hawk, savannah sparrow, swallow-tailed kite, white ibis, white-eyed vireo

Our Natural Places

Exploring - Naturally