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Header Image: Carolina Wren (Weather Note: Hurricane Idalia passed a couple of hundred miles west of us this past Tuesday and Wednesday. We experienced periodic intense rainfall and gusty winds up to about 50 mph. We are safe and had no problems. Please keep all those along the storm’s path who suffered damage and the many who are still without electric power today in your thoughts.) Our morning in the Lake Wales… Read More

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: arbuckle tract, camphorweed, carolina wren, florida yellow flax, green anole, lake wales ridge state forest, manyflower beardtongue, stinging nettle

Balancing Act

Header Image: Spotted Beebalm (Monarda punctata) Early morning sunshine illuminated the forest’s shadowy places and dried the dampness left by last night’s dew. Insects roused from their torpor to start their daily routine of survival. Just above the bugs on the food chain, hungry birds also began their daily routine of survival. Slightly next in line on that food chain thing, a couple of humans raised binoculars in unison to watch the… Read More

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: band-winged dragonlet, barred yellow, camphorweed, carolina wren, eastern amberwing, eastern bluebird, eastern pondhawk, giant swallowtail, gophter tortoise, great pondhawk, ovenbird, roseate skimmer, royal river cruiser, showy rattlebox, snowy egret, southern green-striped grasshopper, spicebush swallowtail, spotted beebalm, tenoroc fish management area, wild hogs

Spring Floral Collection

Header Image: Field of Purple Passionflowers We spent a couple of hours the other day ambling through one of our our favorite venues, Colt Creek State Park. Twenty minutes from the house, it is an easy decision to go often. Located on the edge of the vast Green Swamp, the habitat of pine and mixed hardwood forest, a couple of lakes, a couple of creeks, a bit of wetland, some open grassy… Read More

Category: Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bulltongue arrowhead, camphorweed, common yellow woodsorrel, cutleaf evening primrose, florida hedgenettle, gulf fritillary, lyreleaf sage, mexican pricklypoppy, oakleaf fleabane, purple passionflower, purple thistle, small venus' looking-glass, spiny sowthistle, western honey bee

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