(So, has our absence made your hearts grow fonder? The year has provided more than its share of challenges for us. The vicissitudes of life have kept us from pursuing our...
Category: Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bay lobelia, blackroot, blue-eyed grass, carolina wild petunia, coastal plain hawkweed, crab spider, eastern lubber grasshopper, green swamp, hover fly, oakleaf fleabane, palamedes swallowtail, phaon crescent, pickerelweed, pinebarren aster, smallfruit beggarticks, southern red-legged grasshopper, swamp rose, yellow fly, yellow milkwort
(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
(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
(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...
(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) (Note: This visit to Colt Creek State Park occurred on September 17, 2024. On October 8, during the night and the following...
Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, american beautyberry, colt creek state park, eastern bluebird, forked bluecurls, gator creek, green heron, mac lake, panicled ticktrefoil, pine warbler, pitted stripeseed, prairie warbler, sleepy orange, tall elephantsfoot, viceroy, white ibis
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