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We Visit A Natural Place

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches and bananas. Underneath a pine tree. Cicadas sputter and then hum their familiar chorus. We stretch and sigh heavily as the morning is now becoming quite warm. It would be easy to lay back with my Love and remain here holding hands for hours. So much has transpired in the past couple of years. It is history. For now,… Read More

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, butterweed, carolina desert-chicory, cutleaf evening primrose, eastern bluebird, gray squirrel, great crested flycatcher, gulf fritillary, marsh rabbit, mexican pricklypoppy, nuttall's thistle, oakleaf fleabane, pearl crescent, poey's furrowbee, purple passionflower, red-banded hairstreak, red-shouldered hawk, southern oak hairstreak, tievine, tread-softly, twin-spot skipper

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

Bright (Bright) Sunshiny Day*

(Note: We’re changing to a somewhat more stable header image which will probably be some sort of generic Florida habitat display.) We love exploring new places. The excitement of finding something different. Anticipating new birds, blooms and bugs. The unknown – what’s around the next bend? Today is not like that. Today is relaxing with a good friend as she and I talk about our grandson’s recent visit, our son’s European trip,… Read More

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: barred yellow, belted kingfisher, blazing star, great egret, gulf fritillary, northern parula, red-headed woodpecker, salt marsh moth larva, spurred butterfly pea, tievine, white ibis, white-tailed deer

Our Natural Places

Exploring - Naturally