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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...

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

And, Now, For Her Next Trick —

Header Image: Roosting Cedar Waxwings Zucchini. Taste a slice. The word you are trying to avoid saying is “bland“. That’s why it is served with other stuff. Breading, cheese, onions, disguised...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american white pelican, belted kingfisher, black saddlebags, blue dasher, butterfly, carpenter bee, cedar waxwing, damselfly, dragonfly, eastern phoebe, halloween pennant, prince paskettail, rambur's forktail, savanna iris, spring

Header Image: Clouds In The Marsh “Should I wear my sweatshirt?” It’s that time of year here in sub-tropical central Florida. Important fashion decisions are made difficult by seasonal ambiguities. Yesterday,...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american white pelican, blue-gray gnatcatcher, brown thrasher, common yellowthroat, dorantes longtail, gray catbird, pine warbler, rain lily, rosary pea, spring, swamp sparrow, white-eyed vireo, yellow-bellied sapsucker

That Perfect Blend

Header Image: Picnic Lake At Sunrise A liter of water and about 60 grams of coffee beans, for me, is a pleasant way to begin a morning. One of my favorite...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american kestrel, american robin, cedar waxwing, double-crested cormorant, eastern phoebe, migration, northern flicker, osprey, palm warbler, red-tailed hawk, savannah sparrow, sawtooth blackberry, sepia baskettail, snowy egret, spring, tricolored heron, white ibis

Myakka Morning

Header Image: Park Road We didn’t have much time to spend exploring today, but at Myakka River State Park, any time at all is well worth the trip. This is one...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, damselfly, epiphytes, fungi, myakka river state park, savannah sparrow

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