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How Green Was My Swamp

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Thistles! Thrilling! I know. We’re easily excitable. Following a marathon of medical adventures, we needed to absorb as much fresh air as possible to recharge our souls. Today was a good step toward that goal. A refresher on central Florida’s Green Swamp region. Over 560,000 acres of wetlands, flatlands and low ridges are bounded by prominent sandy ridgelines. The region forms a sort… Read More

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue-gray gnatcatcher, brown-headed nuthatch, bumble bee, green swamp, highbush blueberry, narrowleaf blue-eyed grass, netted pawpaw, palamedes swallowtail, prairie iris, purple thistle, red-bellied woodpecker, southern needleleaf, tufted titmouse, white bog violet, wood stork

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

Our Natural Places

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