One of my families favorite places from our trip to California was Garrapata State Park in the Big Sur. My kids loved the beach which had a bunch of driftwood and they spent two separate days playing on the beach and building houses from the driftwood. As a photographer I […]
Tonight I am posting something a little different from my normal. Both shots are from Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary near Naples, Florida. Corkscrew has a 2.25 mile boardwalk that goes through the heart of an old cypress swamp. Definitely one of my favorite places in Florida. I always like to arrive […]
I returned to the Circle B Bar Reserve in Lakeland today. What a difference the rain has made. The wading bird area has much higher water levels now and consequently not many wading birds at all. They also closed the Marsh Rabbit Run trail due to alligator mating/nesting season. There […]
Another site in Florida that I would like to revisit is Appalachicola National Forest. This area is up near Tallahassee and covers a pretty wide area. There are a lot of dirt roads and a lot of pine trees. A lot of the habitat is Florida scrub which has a […]
One of the places we got to visit in Gainesville was the Butterfly Garden at the Museum of Natural History. It was fun to see all the different kinds of butterflies and trying to photograph them. It is not easy to photograph them as the light is not the best […]
A few other cool finds from the Circle B Bar Reserve on Sunday were a Firewheel or Indian Blanket and a Viceroy butterfly. The Firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella) also goes by several other names including Indian blanket, Indian Blanketflower, or Sundance. They are one of my favorite wildflowers that grow in […]