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Face Whispers

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) We needed a “Nature Fix”. (About a month ago, Gini was advised to have a pacemaker/defibrilator implanted to improve the quality and...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue grosbeak, butterweed, canadian toadflax, clasping venus's looking glass, colt creek state park, florida bluehearts, north american racer, passion flower, swallow-tailed kite, tread-softly, tufted titmouse, white-tailed deer

Familiarity Breeds Content

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) This year has been a bit different than others. “Getting old“, my bride says, “is not for sissies.” Indeed. Hindsight indicates we...

Category: Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: annual blue-eyed grass, bar-winged skimmer, blackroot, carolina desert-chicory, carpenter-mimic leafcutter bee, chicory, common sunflower, coralbean, four-petal st. johnswort, gulf fritillary, mexican pricklypoppy, spring ladies' tresses

More Ridge Riches

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) A symphony during breakfast is a great way to simultaneously relax and be filled with anticipation at what other treasures Nature will...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american white waterlily, bigflower pawpaw, coastal plain hawkweed, florida scrub jay, florida scrub roseling, lake godwin, lake wales ridge, maryland meadowbeauty, northern parula, rolfs' milkweed, scrubland goldenaster, sherman's fox squirrel, smallfruit beggarticks, spatterdock, spicebush swallowtail, white-eyed vireo

Ridge Riches

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Our timing was good. Driving through the fringe of the city limits in the dark of pre-dawn is sometimes a harrowing experience....

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: arbuckle tract, bachman's sparrow, blackroot, eastern cottontail, elliot's milkpea, grass-leaved ladies' tresses, grassleaf lettuce, lake wales ridge state forest, palamedes swallowtail, pinebarren aster, pricklypear, red saddlebags, roserush, white-eyed vireo, whitemouth dayflower

Among Flowers (Still)

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) We continued our slow, stop-and-go travel along the old logging road. It seems we were behaving like the insects who land on...

Category: Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue dasher, browne's savory, carolina wild petunia, coralbean, eastern leaf-footed bug, leavenworth's tickseed, lizard's tail, lyreleaf sage, panicled ticktrefoil, phaon crescent, pickerelweed, purple thistle, yellow milkwort

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