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Sweet Spring

Header Image: Pricklypear In Bloom “As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.” – John Muir “Where would you like to go?”...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: cedar waxwing, clasping venus' looking-glass, fungus, heartwing dock, osprey, pileated woodpecker, pricklypear, salt marsh moth larva, spring

Multitasking Naturally

Header Image: Swamp Chaos This is a follow-up to our last post about flowers. There was a tremendous outcry from a massive amount of our followers protesting the fact no bird...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, bar-winged skimmer, blue dasher, cattle egret, cedar waxwing, colt creek state park, dorantes longtail, eastern bluebird, eastern pondhawk, groundselbush beetle, gulf fritillary, halloween pennant, little blue heron, ornate bella moth, palm warbler, phaon crescent, red-shouldered hawk, red-winged blackbird, white-tailed deer, wild turkey

Spring Floral Collection

Header Image: Field of Purple Passionflowers We spent a couple of hours the other day ambling through one of our our favorite venues, Colt Creek State Park. Twenty minutes from the...

Category: Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bulltongue arrowhead, camphorweed, common yellow woodsorrel, cutleaf evening primrose, florida hedgenettle, gulf fritillary, lyreleaf sage, mexican pricklypoppy, oakleaf fleabane, purple passionflower, purple thistle, small venus' looking-glass, spiny sowthistle, western honey bee

All Natural Ingredients

Header Image: White-eyed Vireo So many things to do! The garage really needs to be sorted out, the extra bedroom looks like the aftermath of a craft warehouse explosion, bags of...

Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue dasher, damselfly, dragonfly, eastern pondhawk, rambur's forktail, red-bellied woodpecker, red-tailed hawk, savannah sparrow, swallow-tailed kite, white ibis, white-eyed vireo

And, Now, For Her Next Trick —

Header Image: Roosting Cedar Waxwings Zucchini. Taste a slice. The word you are trying to avoid saying is “bland“. That’s why it is served with other stuff. Breading, cheese, onions, disguised...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american white pelican, belted kingfisher, black saddlebags, blue dasher, butterfly, carpenter bee, cedar waxwing, damselfly, dragonfly, eastern phoebe, halloween pennant, prince paskettail, rambur's forktail, savanna iris, spring

Our Natural Places

Exploring - Naturally