Once upon a time (stop me if you’ve heard this one), our primary consideration in planning an excursion into the Great Outdoors was limited to researching what birds might be found...
Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: black and yellow mud dauber, blue dasher, butterfly, colt creek state park, common buttonbush, dragonfly, great crested flycatcher, leaf-footed bug, leavenworth's tickseed, little blue heron, northern parula, pale meadowbeauty, purple passionflower, red-spotted purple, spurred butterfly pea, squirrel tree frog, wandering glider, wild turkey
Summer is enveloping us. Walking out the front door is like entering a huge sauna. The humidity turns clothing into a heap of sopping wet rags. Camera and binocular lenses fog...
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
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
“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
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