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Spring In Our Step

(Header Image: American Alligator) (NOTE: We apologize for being away the past few weeks. Computers apparently have a limited life span. Ours exceeded that limit. It took longer than expected to get up and running again. We are back. Rejoice.) I married well. Not only is my wife talented, intelligent, compassionate, possessed with an uncommon amount of common sense and the most beautiful woman I have ever seen – she is not… Read More

Category: Birds, Flora, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, blue dasher, colt creek state park, eastern lubber grasshopper, eastern meadowlark, great crested flycatcher, great southern white, green treefrog, halloween pennant, jumping spider, little blue dragonlet, mexican pricklypoppy, narrowleaf blue-eyed grass, ornate bella moth, phaon crescent, rambur's forktail, southern watersnake, swallow-tailed kite

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

There Are No Ordinary Days

Summer is enveloping us. Walking out the front door is like entering a huge sauna. The humidity turns clothing into a heap of sopping wet rags. Camera and binocular lenses fog over and wiping incessantly doesn’t help. Five steps from the car and perspiration runs down your face and stings your eyes. I. Love. It. Tenoroc Fish Management Area has become our favorite local patch. With over 7,000 acres of land and… Read More

Category: Birds, Fauna, Florida, Photography Tags: american kestrel, eastern bluebird, horace's duskywing, little blue dragonlet, red-shouldered hawk, scarlet skimmer, slaty skimmer, tenoroc fma, water moccasin

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