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Plan B

Anticipation. One dictionary definition describes it as “pleasurable expectation”. As my memory cells fade into unreliability, a few still meld and conjure up examples of “pleasurable expectation”. Fishing trips. When I...

Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue dasher, cuban brown anole, eastern amberwing, eastern pondhawk, four-spotted pennant, green anole, hardee lakes park, needham's skimmer, pileated woodpecker, purple gallinule, red-bellied woodpecker, robber fly, roseate skimmer, slaty skimmer, sweat bee

On The Ridge

June in Florida. Very early in the morning, one can imagine the air still has the lingering coolness most people associate with spring. It’s a hallucination. If you take more...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Insects, Photography Tags: american white waterlily, arbuckle tract, bar-winged skimmer, bumble bee, butterfly milkweed, carolina satyr, eastern tiger swallowtail, eastern towhee, florida scrub jay, great crested flycatcher, green anole, lake wales ridge state forest, northern parula, red saddlebags, red-headed woodpecker, southeastern five-lined skink, summer tanager, tufted titmouse, wild turkey, yellow milkwort

Morning At Saddle Creek

“Sausage, grits and cantaloupe okay with you?” Once upon a time, there was a beautiful brown-eyed young woman who blinked those sublime eyes in disbelief when I revealed I did not...

Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: butterfly, carolina wren, ceraunus blue, dragonfly, eastern lubber grasshopper, four-spotted pennant, needham's skimmer, prince baskettail, red-shouldered hawk, rookery, saddle creek park, swallow-tailed kite, tufted titmouse, white ibis, yellow-billed cuckoo, yellow-crowned night heron

Daring Duo Dragon Hunters In The Swamp of Doom !

Now that I have your attention, hope you are all well today. We are. About two weeks ago, we escaped went out for a bit of fresh air and found ourselves...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bald eagle, blue dasher, bumble bee, butterflies, carolina saddlebags, dragonflies, gray-green clubtail, green swamp, halloween pennant, mason bee, needham's skimmer, purple thistle, roseate skimmer, scarlet skimmer, white peacock

Spring Rewind

Within the gradually dimming recesses of my memory I recall a spring camping trip in Lincoln National Forest, near Cloudcroft, New Mexico. Through an accidental stroke of genius, I had pitched...

Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american kestrel, blue dasher, florida rough green snake, limpkin, mourning dove, pine tree, prairie warbler, red-shouldered hawk, red-tailed hawk, savannah sparrow, spring, tenoroc

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