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Flowerful !

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Pre-dawn mist which had settled into depressions appeared as little ground-clouds across the vast pastureland adjacent to the Green Swamp. Morning flights...

Category: Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue dasher, brown-winged striped sweat bee, cutleaf evening primrose, ferns, florida bellflower, forest, fourpetal st. johnswort, green swamp, jumping spider, leavenworth's tickseed, mason bee, phaon crescent, purple thistle, savanna iris, southern beeblossom lyreleaf sage, starrush whitetop, swollen bladderwort

Transitions

(Click images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) “Wow!” That’s an overused interjection, for certain. Sometimes, however, nothing else conveys the meaning one seeks. Besides, it’s a direct quote, so there....

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: american robin, canadian toadflax, carolina desert-chicory, carolina jessamine, colt creek state park, common yellowthroat, gray catbird, leavenworth's tickseed, lyreleaf sage, mexican pricklypoppy, oakleaf fleabane, osprey, pileated woodpecker, red-shouldered hawk, savannah sparrow, sawtooth blackberry, walter's viburnum, wood stork, yellow-rumped warbler, yellow-throated warbler

Back In The Saddle Again*

Life is precious. Step outside. Breathe deeply. Tell someone you love them. (Our handlers released the latch to the door of our confinement and we furtively stepped onto the soft grass....

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: black-and-white warbler, coastal plain willow, glossy ibis, lesser yellowlegs, limpkin, little blue heron, palm warbler, red-shouldered hawk, savannah sparrow, wilson's snipe, yaupon holly, yellow-rumped warbler

Happy New Year!

(Yes, we’re late to the party but we hope you are all well into living your best life as a new year brings so many new opportunities. Gini and I are...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, carolina yellow-eyed grass, cloudless sulphur, eastern lubber grasshopper, golden silk spider, green swamp, little blue dragonlet, ornate bella moth, pine lily, purple false foxglove, purple loosestrife, red-femured spotted orbweaver, richloam wma, skyflower, sleepy orange, southern broken-dash, spurred butterfly pea, tall elephantsfoot, tufted titmouse, vanillaleaf, virginia buttonweed, withlacoochee state forest

Falling In The Afternoon

(Click on image to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Previously, in “Falling In The Morning”, I alluded to the fact that Ranger Sunny provided a nugget of information which I had...

Category: Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, bigpod sesbania, butterflies, celestial lily, colt creek state park, longhorn bog orchid, pine lily, sunflower, white-tailed deer

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