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Nature Has No Calendar

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) The posted speed limit on this particular road is 60 mph. Traveling at that speed is hazardous to one’s safety. Especially at this hour, just before sunrise. The road is 35 miles in length and connects two major U.S. highways, one of which is a short distance from Interstate 75, a main north-south route through the peninsula. Commercial trucks and commuters use this… Read More

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american lady, bluejacket, brown-headed nuthatch, carolina wren, common yellowthroat, coral honeysuckle, coralbean, delaware skipper, florida bellflower, green swamp, large four-spotted scoliid wasp, northern cardinal, northern parula, palamedes swallowtail, pale meadowbeauty, pearl crescent, showy milkwort, southern beeblossom, spicebush swallowtail, swamp rose, white ibis

Familiarity Breeds Content

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) This year has been a bit different than others. “Getting old“, my bride says, “is not for sissies.” Indeed. Hindsight indicates we should have purchased one of those extended service warranties for our bodies. Our appointment calendar sure has been filled with visits to all sorts of medical practioners, laboratories, imaging services and we are now on a first-name basis with the local… Read More

Category: Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: annual blue-eyed grass, bar-winged skimmer, blackroot, carolina desert-chicory, carpenter-mimic leafcutter bee, chicory, common sunflower, coralbean, four-petal st. johnswort, gulf fritillary, mexican pricklypoppy, spring ladies' tresses

Among Flowers (Still)

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) We continued our slow, stop-and-go travel along the old logging road. It seems we were behaving like the insects who land on a flower, enjoy it, flit away to another bloom and continue on their merry way in the same fashion. Our progress through the forest was slow. But ever-so-enjoyable. Birds continued their singing beyond our visual range. We anticipate seeing youngsters learning… Read More

Category: Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue dasher, browne's savory, carolina wild petunia, coralbean, eastern leaf-footed bug, leavenworth's tickseed, lizard's tail, lyreleaf sage, panicled ticktrefoil, phaon crescent, pickerelweed, purple thistle, yellow milkwort

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