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Header Image: Leavenworth’s Tickseed (Coreopsis leavenworthii) It is hot. It is humid. It is summer. It is Florida, a sub-tropical location. We tend to arise early in order to be at our destination near sunrise. After a couple of hours, we return home. It is hot. Our pace during the summer is slower than in cooler months. This has advantages. Take our walk last week, for example. We spent about an hour-and-a-half… Read More
The Final Chapter Just as we thought all was lost at Lost Lake when we stumbled upon the remains of that alligator carcass which was likely a result of the poor beast becoming hopelessly lost at Lost Lake, we spotted the car. Whew! We thought for sure it was curtains. Or at least cheap drapery. Turns out it was just Spanish Moss hanging over the trail obscuring our view of the parking… Read More
Header Image: Field of Purple Passionflowers We spent a couple of hours the other day ambling through one of our our favorite venues, Colt Creek State Park. Twenty minutes from the house, it is an easy decision to go often. Located on the edge of the vast Green Swamp, the habitat of pine and mixed hardwood forest, a couple of lakes, a couple of creeks, a bit of wetland, some open grassy… Read More