Flora | Our Natural Places

Our Day of Summer

(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...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: carolina saddlebags, deckert's pinweed, florida alicia, lake wales ridge state forest, partridge pea, plains snakecotton, red-headed woodpecker, small's jointweed, whitemouth dayflower

Flowerful ! (Belated Part Two)

(So, has our absence made your hearts grow fonder? The year has provided more than its share of challenges for us. The vicissitudes of life have kept us from pursuing our...

Category: Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bay lobelia, blackroot, blue-eyed grass, carolina wild petunia, coastal plain hawkweed, crab spider, eastern lubber grasshopper, green swamp, hover fly, oakleaf fleabane, palamedes swallowtail, phaon crescent, pickerelweed, pinebarren aster, smallfruit beggarticks, southern red-legged grasshopper, swamp rose, yellow fly, yellow milkwort

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Pre-dawn mist which had settled into depressions appeared as little ground-clouds across the vast pastureland adjacent to the Green Swamp. Morning flights...

Category: Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue dasher, brown-winged striped sweat bee, cutleaf evening primrose, ferns, florida bellflower, forest, fourpetal st. johnswort, green swamp, jumping spider, leavenworth's tickseed, mason bee, phaon crescent, purple thistle, savanna iris, southern beeblossom lyreleaf sage, starrush whitetop, swollen bladderwort

Transitions

(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

Back In The Saddle Again*

Life is precious. Step outside. Breathe deeply. Tell someone you love them. (Our handlers released the latch to the door of our confinement and we furtively stepped onto the soft grass....

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: black-and-white warbler, coastal plain willow, glossy ibis, lesser yellowlegs, limpkin, little blue heron, palm warbler, red-shouldered hawk, savannah sparrow, wilson's snipe, yaupon holly, yellow-rumped warbler

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