A Local Trip to Weekiwachee Preserve
It has been a long time since I took a photo-hike at Weekiwachee Preserve. I do have several friends that post photos of their beautiful nature encounters and in a […]
Creepy Critters: Stinkers and Slimmers
Creepy Critters: Stinkers and Slimmers There’s nothing like taking a mild walk on the trails and get head bomb by a stink bug and then you realized why they are […]
Creepy Critters: Crab Spiders
Crab spiders have a unique body shape and coloration. It’s their front pair of legs that quickly identify them because they are much longer and larger than the rest of […]
Handsome Meadow Katydid
I traveled north to visit Goethe State Forest in search of two particular flowering plants. The first plant was the Clasping Milkweed (Asclepias amplexicaulis) and the second Spotted Horsemint (Monarda […]
September Issue
Learning Nature As I am taking these Florida Master Naturalist courses, I am developing new ways to learn, and nothing is better when your online courses get you out in […]
Nature Photo Tips: How to photograph yellow flowers
How to photograph yellow flowers It’s a beautiful sunny summer day, and yellow wildflowers are in full bloom. You start taking photos, and you realize that the yellows are not […]
Striped Mud Turtle
Not very often do I see turtles sunning on a log in the swamps at Chassahowitzka WMA. It’s just one of those things, being in the right place at the […]
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
You can always tell if a Sapsucker was forging on a tree….they always drill small holes in a row. This is the first observation at Chassahowitzka WMA. Currently, I have […]
Overexposed…. nature photography
A good day out hiking with the hubby! Initially, we were out to try to find a particular bird, but instead, we found plenty of other goodies. To those nature […]
