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Short And Sweet

Header Image: White-tailed Deer No. The title does not refer to Gini. No matter whether such a description might be true, she may take exception to that “short” thing. And you wouldn’t want me to end up bruised (again), would you? Our days have been interrupted lately with catch-up visits to assorted physicians and lab specialists which were postponed due to the interplanetary plague of recent years. It was becoming serious as… Read More

Category: Birds, Fauna, Photography Tags: carolina chickadee, cattle egret, eastern bluebird, eastern kingbird, tufted titmouse, white-tailed deer

Georgia On My Mind

(Header Image: Pecan Tree) Great segments of the land were decorated in pink. Just for us. Narrow dirt roads had been given the color of the interior of a perfectly baked sweet potato. Just for us. Bright blue skies were punctuated with fluffy formations that were enlarged versions of the cotton which will bloom later this summer. Just for us. The pink in the landscape was due to thousands of peach trees… Read More

Category: Birds, Photography Tags: american robin, barn, cedar waxwing, chipping sparrow, common grackle, downy woodpecker, eastern bluebird, georgia, northern mockingbird, palm warbler, peach blossom, pecans, pine warbler, red-bellied woodpecker, tufted titmouse, yellow-rumped warbler

Lost Lakes Found

Crossing Saddle Creek on the footbridge, it seemed I had been transported to another place. First, there was a hill to climb – in Florida? The tall trees, the dense understory of lush ferns, curtains of vines hanging from huge limbs made it feel as if I was in a rain forest in the Amazon. A huge dragonfly rising from the path completed the illusion. In reality, I was exploring an unfamiliar… Read More

Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american redstart, carolina wren, downy woodpecker, ebony jewelwing, lost lakes, northern parula, powdered dancer, saddle creek, tenoroc fish management area, tufted titmouse, twilight darner, yellow-billed cuckoo, yellow-throated warbler

On The Ridge

June in Florida. Very early in the morning, one can imagine the air still has the lingering coolness most people associate with spring. It’s a hallucination. If you take more than two steps through the greenery, your feet and calves are immediately soaked in dew. Humidity manifests itself by making you feel as though you have stepped into a sauna. As there is no breeze, walking briskly helps evaporate the drops… Read More

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Insects, Photography Tags: american white waterlily, arbuckle tract, bar-winged skimmer, bumble bee, butterfly milkweed, carolina satyr, eastern tiger swallowtail, eastern towhee, florida scrub jay, great crested flycatcher, green anole, lake wales ridge state forest, northern parula, red saddlebags, red-headed woodpecker, southeastern five-lined skink, summer tanager, tufted titmouse, wild turkey, yellow milkwort

Morning At Saddle Creek

“Sausage, grits and cantaloupe okay with you?” Once upon a time, there was a beautiful brown-eyed young woman who blinked those sublime eyes in disbelief when I revealed I did not care for grits. After all, my mother was raised in Mississippi, the virtual center of the “grits belt” of the southern United States. My father was from the panhandle of Florida, which is actually part of Alabama and Georgia, where a… Read More

Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: butterfly, carolina wren, ceraunus blue, dragonfly, eastern lubber grasshopper, four-spotted pennant, needham's skimmer, prince baskettail, red-shouldered hawk, rookery, saddle creek park, swallow-tailed kite, tufted titmouse, white ibis, yellow-billed cuckoo, yellow-crowned night heron

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