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A Natural Place For Therapy

(Today’s post describes our visit to Colt Creek State Park in central Florida on September 26, 2025. Gini had knee replacement surgery 30 days prior. I will have four more sessions...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: celestial lily, chapman's goldenrod, colt creek state park, eastern phoebe, four-petal st. johnswort, gulf fritillary, pine lily, rayless sunflower, red-shouldered hawk, seven sisters, spider wasp, wild turkey

Our Day of Summer – Part Three

(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

Our Day of Summer – Part Two

(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

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

Evening Ride

(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

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