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Forest Delights

Header Image: Wood Stork When it comes to exploring natural places, we are easily pleased. Throughout our incredible life together, Gini has always been one to find exuberance in being outdoors....

Category: Photography

We Found Orchids

Header Image: Manyflowered Grasspink (Calopogon multiflorus) Fortune smiled upon us a few weeks ago. Hiking in an upland pine forest was a bit surreal. One side of the path had recently...

Category: Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: Manyflowered Grasspink (Calopogon multiflorus), orchid

Pier Pressure

Header Image: Brown Pelicans Our morning at Fort DeSoto Park had been wonderful so far. Birds in the mud. Birds in the water. Now that I was clean and dry less...

Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: brown pelican, fort desoto park, osprey, red-bellied woodpecker, royal tern, snowy egret

Wading For Inspiration

Header Image: Reddish Egret A small mound of sand just under the surface of the water turned out to be a good spot to sit. My knees supported the camera lens...

Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: fort de soto park, great blue heron, marbled godwit, red-breasted merganser, reddish egret, short-billed dowitcher, snowy egret, willet

(P)Laying In The Mud

Header Image: Snowy Plover The inlet between beach and sandbar was less than knee-deep. Although it was barely past sunrise, the water of the Gulf of Mexico was not shockingly cold...

Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: american oystercatcher, black-bellied plover, dunlin, fort de soto park, red knot, ruddy turnstone, semipalmated plover, semipalmated sandpiper, short-billed dowitcher, snowy plover, western sandpiper

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