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Just Another Ordinary Incredibly Amazing Morning

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) “They look like some sort of ripe golden jewels ready to be picked.” Gini’s description of the Eastern Amberwing was pretty accurate....

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: black-bellied whistling-duck, bulimulus snail, eastern amberwing, eastern lubber grasshopper, elliot's milkpea, fragile forktail, green anole, man-of-the-earth, red-tailed hawk, spanish moss, swallow-tailed kite, tenoroc fma

Slow Motion Notion

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) I often tend to be in a hurry. Anxious to “see it all”, I have been known to snap a quick picture...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: arrow-shaped orbweaver, ceraunus blue, florida alicia, four-spotted pennant, frogfruit, grassleaf letuce, halloween pennant, little blue dragonlet, little blue heron, needham's skimmer, ornate bella moth, sand blackberry, southern beeblossom, vagrant scrubsnail, wooly bee fly

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

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