(So, has our absence made your hearts grow fonder? The year has provided more than its share of challenges for us. The vicissitudes of life have kept us from pursuing our love of exploring Nature. Things may be changing for the better. We made our first trip to the forest since April a few days ago. This post is a follow-up to our last one which describes our spring visit to the… Read More
Category: Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bay lobelia, blackroot, blue-eyed grass, carolina wild petunia, coastal plain hawkweed, crab spider, eastern lubber grasshopper, green swamp, hover fly, oakleaf fleabane, palamedes swallowtail, phaon crescent, pickerelweed, pinebarren aster, smallfruit beggarticks, southern red-legged grasshopper, swamp rose, yellow fly, yellow milkwort
Header Image: Immature White Ibis Why does food taste better in the forest? I mean, a boiled egg is a boiled egg. Eaten at the dining table in comfortably conditioned air and protected from natural elements, it is satisfying. Taking a bite of that same hen fruit under a canopy of pine boughs, surrounded by yellow blooms, purple berries, hammering woodpeckers, yammering jays, brown-eyed deer and with a background of a cacophonous… Read More
Our Natural Places
Our Natural Places