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‘Tis The Season

Header Image: Coreopsis I think Gini should have become a television meteorologist in Florida. She looks good, knows how to use her pointer finger (as a weapon, at times) and can...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, american bird grasshopper, blue dasher, carolina desert-chicory, colt creek state park, coreopsis, eastern carpenter bee, eastern lubber grasshopper, great blue skimmer, green lynx spider, leavenworth's tickseed, little blue dragonlet, mischievous bird grasshopper, mock bishop's weed, nuttall's thistle, oakleaf fleabane, pearl crescent, phaon crescent, swallow-tailed kite

Beyond The Bridge

Header Image: Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis) Why does a plain boiled egg taste better when consumed under the branches of a huge oak tree in the middle of a forest where...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: atlantic grasshopper, blackeyed susan, blue dasher, bulltongue arrowhead, carolina chickadee, climbing aster, green anole, green tree frog, northern parula, palamedes swallowtail, tarflower, wild petunia, withlacoochee state forest, yellow colicroot

We Found Orchids

Header Image: Manyflowered Grasspink (Calopogon multiflorus) Fortune smiled upon us a few weeks ago. Hiking in an upland pine forest was a bit surreal. One side of the path had recently...

Category: Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: Manyflowered Grasspink (Calopogon multiflorus), orchid

Pier Pressure

Header Image: Brown Pelicans Our morning at Fort DeSoto Park had been wonderful so far. Birds in the mud. Birds in the water. Now that I was clean and dry less...

Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: brown pelican, fort desoto park, osprey, red-bellied woodpecker, royal tern, snowy egret

Wading For Inspiration

Header Image: Reddish Egret A small mound of sand just under the surface of the water turned out to be a good spot to sit. My knees supported the camera lens...

Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: fort de soto park, great blue heron, marbled godwit, red-breasted merganser, reddish egret, short-billed dowitcher, snowy egret, willet

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