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Beyond The Bridge

Header Image: Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis) Why does a plain boiled egg taste better when consumed under the branches of a huge oak tree in the middle of a forest where no sound of man can be heard? Following our wading bird extravaganza as we paused at one end of the old bridge over the Little Withlacoochee River, we found a nice clearing for brunch just beyond the other end. Lush Resurrection… Read More

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: atlantic grasshopper, blackeyed susan, blue dasher, bulltongue arrowhead, carolina chickadee, climbing aster, green anole, green tree frog, northern parula, palamedes swallowtail, tarflower, wild petunia, withlacoochee state forest, yellow colicroot

Nature’s Timeline

Header Image: Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae) A definition of a “timeline” might be: a sequence of related events arranged in chronological order and displayed along a line. Therefore, “Nature’s Timeline” could be as simple as: Spring > Summer > Autumn > Winter Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Seasonal change is caused by the axial tilt of the Earth, which creates climatic differences due to greater or lesser exposure to solar radiation. —-Reference.com, Characteristics of… Read More

Category: Birds, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, barn swallow, black and yellow argiope, cloudless sulphur, colt creek state park, common buckeye, dorantes longtail, eastern kingbird, fiery skipper, fungus, green tree frog, horace's duskywing, little blue dragonlet, puddling, purple martin, sleepy orange, spotted orbweaver, swallow-tailed kite, tropical checkered-skipper, variegated fritillary

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