Sunday, August 5, 2012

Wakulla Springs butterfly garden

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Palamedes swallowtail on ironweed flowers



Tiger Swallowtail
Hummingbird moth

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Chasing the Light

These photos were taken as the sun was setting, August 1 near the end of the Lighthouse Road in the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge.

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Osprey


I was intrigued by the almost white cordgrass, black shadows
of the cordgrass in the water, and floating pine needles



Rare close view of a solo white pelican



Warm glow of palms along the Gulf shoreline



Only the fiddler crabs at the bottom of this photo are in focus. They
blend to an orange mass of millions, maybe billions, of fiddler crabs  toward
the top of the image.

Remember right after the oil spill when BP said that they would
'make it right'?  I doubt that there is current science to understand this
rich environment, certainly not to restore after it if it was impacted by oil.

To protect Florida's marine resources, JUST SAY NO
to drilling in the northern Gulf of Mexico.