Flora | Our Natural Places

Let’s Go For A Walk

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) It is a little cooler than expected this morning. The dirt of the old logging road is somewhat damp and it readily...

Category: Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blackeyed susan, bulltongue arrowhead, delta flower scarab, eastern leaf-footed bug, eastern tiger swallowtail, horace's duskywing, northern cloudywing, palamedes swallowtail, pineland waterwillow, rosy camphorweed, roundpod st. john's-wort, saltmarsh morning-glory, sandweed, smallfruit beggarticks, southern broken-dash, spicebush swallowtail, spurred butterfly pea, tarflower, viceroy, wild petunia, winged loosestrife, yellow milkwort

Nature Has No Calendar

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) The posted speed limit on this particular road is 60 mph. Traveling at that speed is hazardous to one’s safety. Especially at...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american lady, bluejacket, brown-headed nuthatch, carolina wren, common yellowthroat, coral honeysuckle, coralbean, delaware skipper, florida bellflower, green swamp, large four-spotted scoliid wasp, northern cardinal, northern parula, palamedes swallowtail, pale meadowbeauty, pearl crescent, showy milkwort, southern beeblossom, spicebush swallowtail, swamp rose, white ibis

The Southern Mines

(Click on images to zoom, click again to enlarge.) An hour past sunrise and lingering fog obscures the bright light we normally encounter. Damp air mutes the calls of Mourning Dove...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, american lotus, blue dasher, bulltongue arrowhead, carolina desert-chicory, common gallinule, double-crested cormorant, forster's tern, four-spotted pennant, great egret, hardee lakes county park, killdeer, little blue heron, loggerhead shrike, mexican pricklypoppy, pickerelweed, prince baskettail, red-winged blackbird, sandhill cranes, white-eyed vireo

Lucky Streak Trifecta

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Naturalists and photographers, even amateur “enthusiasts” such as the two of us, know that being outdoors early is the key to success...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: cattle egret, eastern towhee, elderberry, fungus, prairie fleabane, red-banded hairstreak, red-tailed hawk, salt marsh moth larva, southern oak hairstreak, white m hairstreak, white sweetclover

We Visit A Natural Place

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches and bananas. Underneath a pine tree. Cicadas sputter and then hum their familiar chorus. We stretch and sigh...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, butterweed, carolina desert-chicory, cutleaf evening primrose, eastern bluebird, gray squirrel, great crested flycatcher, gulf fritillary, marsh rabbit, mexican pricklypoppy, nuttall's thistle, oakleaf fleabane, pearl crescent, poey's furrowbee, purple passionflower, red-banded hairstreak, red-shouldered hawk, southern oak hairstreak, tievine, tread-softly, twin-spot skipper

Our Natural Places

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