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“Lingering In The Golden Gleam …”*

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Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: american lotus, anhinga, little blue heron, man-of-the-earth, pickerelweed, prairie fleabane, vireo nest

‘Tis The Season

Header Image: Coreopsis I think Gini should have become a television meteorologist in Florida. She looks good, knows how to use her pointer finger (as a weapon, at times) and can...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, american bird grasshopper, blue dasher, carolina desert-chicory, colt creek state park, coreopsis, eastern carpenter bee, eastern lubber grasshopper, great blue skimmer, green lynx spider, leavenworth's tickseed, little blue dragonlet, mischievous bird grasshopper, mock bishop's weed, nuttall's thistle, oakleaf fleabane, pearl crescent, phaon crescent, swallow-tailed kite

Beyond The Bridge

Header Image: Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis) Why does a plain boiled egg taste better when consumed under the branches of a huge oak tree in the middle of a forest where...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: atlantic grasshopper, blackeyed susan, blue dasher, bulltongue arrowhead, carolina chickadee, climbing aster, green anole, green tree frog, northern parula, palamedes swallowtail, tarflower, wild petunia, withlacoochee state forest, yellow colicroot

We Found Orchids

Header Image: Manyflowered Grasspink (Calopogon multiflorus) Fortune smiled upon us a few weeks ago. Hiking in an upland pine forest was a bit surreal. One side of the path had recently...

Category: Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: Manyflowered Grasspink (Calopogon multiflorus), orchid

Escape From Lost Lake !

The Final Chapter Just as we thought all was lost at Lost Lake when we stumbled upon the remains of that alligator carcass which was likely a result of the poor...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american beautyberry, american bird grasshopper, brown thrasher, c-130, caeserweed, cloudless sulphur, dainty sulphur, florida carpenter ant, great crested flycatcher, lost lake, osprey, purple passionflower, rambur's forktail, red saddlebags, red-winged blackbird, swallow-tailed kite, thread-waisted wasp, trumpet honeysuckle

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