Nature
2026-07-01Love Songs
Finally, we had a soaking good rain, and the frogs in the swamp have been enjoying the puddles so much that they sang all night and are still singing late this morning.May you...
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Nature · Photography
2026-06-09Looks like I have new neighbors
looks like a pair of hawks have built a substantial 2-3 foot diameter nest high up in a tree here at the studio while I was otherwise occupied.I haven’t caught a good look at...
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2026-06-02Beauty underfoot
Slow down. Observe. Life is amazing. This mushroom is just a tiny part of a massive organism. It is an interlocking puzzle piece from a much bigger picture, yet marvelously...
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2026-05-11Trumpet Creeper
It is early May, and while our drought here in Florida continues to beat down many plant species and is taking a toll on wildlife, this native vine is thriving and providing...
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2026-04-07The Battered Rose
My Mom’s old surviving climbing rose is in bloom. It has been through a great deal, frosts, droughts, floods, and the weed whipper, and now rambles up and about like a wild...
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2026-03-31Cuban Tree Frogs
I spotted this little illegal alien the other day when I was moving boards that were stacked up against the house. This is a Cuban tree frog and it is labeled an invasive...
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2026-03-31Spiderwort is the Bees’ Knees
The best time to be in Florida is when the spiderwort, a variety of tradescantia blooms. It is typically covered with honey bees and native bees gathering its abundant pollen,...
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2026-03-29Air plants
The air plants on the pecan tree are sending up these red stems … soon a few purple petals will come out.I use this pecan tree as a nursery for different kinds of native air...
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2026-03-29Loquats
Twice a year we get a crop of loquats- sometimes called Japanese Plums. They are very good but the mockingbirds, woodpeckers, opossums, raccoons, and jays think so as well.Ours...
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2026-02-02Of air plants and lichens
A pecan tree I planted several years ago has become a nursery of sorts for my efforts to propagate and learn about the air plants so common here in Florida. I you don’t have to...
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