Florida | Our Natural Places

Back On Track

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) For ten miles, the road stretches in a straight line through the Lake Wales Ridge State Forest. Multiple trails lead from the...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bachman's sparrow, eastern meadowlark, flattened pipewort, florida scrub frostweed, florida scrub jay, four-petal st. johnswort, gray catbird, great crested flycatcher, lake wales ridge state forest, netted pawpaw, northern parula, palamedes swallowtail, pricklypear, smallfruit beggarticks, wild turkey track

How Green Was My Swamp

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Thistles! Thrilling! I know. We’re easily excitable. Following a marathon of medical adventures, we needed to absorb as much fresh air as...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue-gray gnatcatcher, brown-headed nuthatch, bumble bee, green swamp, highbush blueberry, narrowleaf blue-eyed grass, netted pawpaw, palamedes swallowtail, prairie iris, purple thistle, red-bellied woodpecker, southern needleleaf, tufted titmouse, white bog violet, wood stork

A Pine Woods Morning

(Click to enlarge images, click again to zoom.) Sunrise. It happens every day. Many of us are still in bed or busy rushing to jobs or getting the kids ready for...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: barred yellow, deer moss, downy woodpecker, florida lupine, florida scrub jay, fog, hairy woodpecker, lake wales ridge state forest, northern mockingbird, prickly pear, spider webs

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) A few very cold mornings are uncomfortable events for these native Floridians. Ever the optimist, Gini opined that the below freezing temperatures...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: american robin, cedar waxwing, eastern phoebe, laughing gull, loggerhead shrike, northern mockingbird, osprey, palm warbler, rosary pea, sandhill crane, tenoroc fma

On Not Setting Goals

(Click on images to enlarge. Click again to zoom) The recently plowed ground was unsettling in several ways. There had always been orange trees here. Across the road were ghosts of...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue dasher, dorantes longtail, killdeer, loggerhead shrike, ocola skipper, palm warbler, sunrise, turkey vulture, yellow garden spider

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