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(Finally. This is the last chapter of reporting on our only day this summer we were able to explore nature. It was August 15 and we were in the Lake Wales...
Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: barred yellow, black dancer, carolina yellow-eyed grass, cloudless sulphur, common buckeye, eastern amberwing, florida pricklypear, florida scrub jay, lake wales ridge state forest, loblolly bay, narrowleaf primrose-willow, october flower, roserush, sandhill st. john's-wort, scrubland goldenaster, southern needleleaf
(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) The red clay road is still damp along the edges from yesterday’s brief rain shower. Pine trees provide that fresh scent only...
Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american white waterlily, brown-headed nuthatch, darrow's blueberry, eastern towhee, golden-winged skimmer, grassy arrowhead, halloween pennant, lake godwin, lake wales ridge, pipevine swallowtail, purple bladderwort, tall elephantsfoot, tenangle pipewort, winged sumac, yellow milkwort, zebra swallowtail
(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Dew-bejeweled wisps of webs atop brown grass stalks sparkled with the first rays of sun as we made our way along the...
(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Sweltering summer days. Exploring in August usually means being out early. Today, we braved the humidity and building thunderstorms to visit one...
Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: black-necked stilt, blue grosbeak, common nighthawk, red-shouldered hawk, sunset
(Click images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) “Wow!” That’s an overused interjection, for certain. Sometimes, however, nothing else conveys the meaning one seeks. Besides, it’s a direct quote, so there....
Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: american robin, canadian toadflax, carolina desert-chicory, carolina jessamine, colt creek state park, common yellowthroat, gray catbird, leavenworth's tickseed, lyreleaf sage, mexican pricklypoppy, oakleaf fleabane, osprey, pileated woodpecker, red-shouldered hawk, savannah sparrow, sawtooth blackberry, walter's viburnum, wood stork, yellow-rumped warbler, yellow-throated warbler
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