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(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) (Gini continues to take it easy and liked the hospital food so much she may schedule another visit soon. In the meantime, we shall force you to view never-before-seen images of past adventures. Thank you again from both our hearts for your well-wishes. It means a lot.) In the merry merry month of May, Gini and I were frolicking in the Green Swamp… Read More
Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: buttonbush, carolina chickadee, citrine forktail, eastern black swallowtail, eastern carpenter bee, florida bellflower, four-petal st. john's-wort, green swamp, horace's duskywing, little yellow, mock bishop's weed, phaon crescent, pineland waterwillow, pitted stripeseed, roundpod st. john's-wort, showy milkwort, spurred butterfly pea, swamp rose, tufted titmouse, yellow milkwort
(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) I saw a pretty red flower. Gini whispered: “That’s an orchid.” We were enjoying the final leg of our anniversary road trip. About 30 minutes north of our hotel in Naples, Florida, is the Audubon Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. Consisting of over 13,000 acres, the sanctuary is a testament to citizen action to preserve an ecological treasure. Logging threatened to completely destroy what remained… Read More
Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, blue dasher, blue-gray gnatcatcher, bretonica peluda, brown anole, bulltongue arrowhead, buttonbush, cardinal airplant, chapman's arrowhead, corkscrew swamp sanctuary, cypress tree, great crested flycatcher, green magnolia jumping spider, leafy beaked ladiestresses, mexican primrosewillow, nuttall's thistle, orchid, pickerelweed, prairie/savanna iris, purple thistle, rabbitbells, rice button aster, southern dewberry, strangler fig, virginia sweetspire, white ibis, yellow-crowned night heron
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