(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
(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
(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...
(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
(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
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