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Category: Photography

Header Image: Hummingbird Clearwing (Hemaris thysbe) “Those are some tall thistles!” My mistress of understatement was right. Soon, I would be threading my way through that sticky forest and would discover...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bandana of the everglades, bar-winged skimmer, blue dasher, bumble bee, carolina desert-chicory, carolina saddlebags, colt creek state park, cypress tree gall, eastern bluebird, eastern lubber grasshopper, flower beetle, great crested flycatcher, hummingbird clearwing, mexican pricklypoppy, palamedes swallowtail, pickerelweed, red saddlebags, swamp rose, white-tailed deer, wild turkey, zebra heliconian

“Then it doesn’t much matter which way you go.”*

Header Image: Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) on Brazilian Vervain (Verbena brasiliensis) Sweet, tart and juicy slices of tangerine were refreshing as we rested on the shore of the lake a couple...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bald eagle, brazilian vervain, carpenter bee, eastern amberwing, eastern towhee, gulf fritillary, indian blanket, lantana, man-of-the-earth, osprey, pricklypear, red saddlebags, showy rattlebox, tenoroc public use area, water moccasin, wild bushbean, xylocopa

Crooked River: The Beginning

Header Image: Pine Flatwoods It can be exhilarating to be prone in the damp grass early in the morning just after sunrise observing the waking moments of what is likely the...

Category: Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue dasher, bluejacket, carolina wild petunia, citrine forktail, cloudless sulphur, coral bean, crooked river, green anole, green swamp, least skipper, lizard's tail, palamedes swallowtail, pearl crescent, peruvian primrosewillow, savanna iris, starrush whitetop, striped mud turtle, swamp rose, withlacoochee river

Light Drawing

Header Image: Least Bittern Clear skies and the wind had subsided. Two hours before sunset. I had a sudden notion to wander along the western shore of the lake where the...

Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: american alligator, anhinga, black-bellied whistling-duck, glossy ibis, least bittern, limpkin, little blue heron, purple martin, snail kite, tricolored heron, white ibis

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