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Let’s Go For A Walk

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) It is a little cooler than expected this morning. The dirt of the old logging road is somewhat damp and it readily clings to the soles of our shoes. A path leading to the north is fringed with tall grass and our pant legs are immediately soaked as we veer off the track to look at a lavender wild petunia. Mourning Dove are… Read More

Category: Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blackeyed susan, bulltongue arrowhead, delta flower scarab, eastern leaf-footed bug, eastern tiger swallowtail, horace's duskywing, northern cloudywing, palamedes swallowtail, pineland waterwillow, rosy camphorweed, roundpod st. john's-wort, saltmarsh morning-glory, sandweed, smallfruit beggarticks, southern broken-dash, spicebush swallowtail, spurred butterfly pea, tarflower, viceroy, wild petunia, winged loosestrife, yellow milkwort

Happy New Year!

(Yes, we’re late to the party but we hope you are all well into living your best life as a new year brings so many new opportunities. Gini and I are both recuperating well. However, our rehabbers are not ready to release us back into the wild just yet. Soon! In the meantime, please enjoy a few images from a trip we made on September 11, 2024.) (Click on images to enlarge,… Read More

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, carolina yellow-eyed grass, cloudless sulphur, eastern lubber grasshopper, golden silk spider, green swamp, little blue dragonlet, ornate bella moth, pine lily, purple false foxglove, purple loosestrife, red-femured spotted orbweaver, richloam wma, skyflower, sleepy orange, southern broken-dash, spurred butterfly pea, tall elephantsfoot, tufted titmouse, vanillaleaf, virginia buttonweed, withlacoochee state forest

Resting “In The Grace of the World”*

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) “Withlacoochee”. I like the sound. I really like the river. The name may have evolved from Native American for “crooked river”, an apt description. Florida’s Withlacoochee River bubbles up within the depths of the Green Swamp and winds its way north and west for 140 miles where it empties into the Gulf of Mexico. It is a beautiful waterway. Near the place where… Read More

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bighead rush, blue dasher, great crested flycatcher, great golden digger wasp, green swamp, mohr's thoroughwort, narrowleaf primrose-willow, needham's skimmer, northern cardinal, orange milkwort, palamedes swallowtail, pale meadowbeauty, richloam, rosy camphorweed, southern beeblossom, spurred butterfly pea, summer tanager, winged loosestrife, withlacoochee river, yellow milkwort, yellow-eyed grass

We Gathered Rosebuds While In May*

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) (Gini continues to take it easy and liked the hospital food so much she may schedule another visit soon. In the meantime, we shall force you to view never-before-seen images of past adventures. Thank you again from both our hearts for your well-wishes. It means a lot.) In the merry merry month of May, Gini and I were frolicking in the Green Swamp… Read More

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: buttonbush, carolina chickadee, citrine forktail, eastern black swallowtail, eastern carpenter bee, florida bellflower, four-petal st. john's-wort, green swamp, horace's duskywing, little yellow, mock bishop's weed, phaon crescent, pineland waterwillow, pitted stripeseed, roundpod st. john's-wort, showy milkwort, spurred butterfly pea, swamp rose, tufted titmouse, yellow milkwort

Among Flowers

(Click on image to enlarge, click again to zoom.) The calendar for this excursion was near the end of April. Florida’s heat and humidity will be here soon. In the meantime, the mild clear mornings are glorious. We turned off the county highway onto an old logging road as the eastern sky began to lighten. A coating of dust on the plants beside the dirt track testified to the recent dry conditions…. Read More

Category: Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: black-eyed susan, citrine forktail, florida bellflower, longleaf milkweed, peelbark st. john's wort, pinebarren aster, southern beeblossom, spurred butterfly pea, swamp rose, tievine

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