Monday, June 24, 2019

April 2019

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Yelloweyed grass (Xyris sp)
Ochlockonee River State Park

Toothachegrass
(Ctenium aromaticum)



Color Full Bark
St. Marks Refuge, Otter Lake

Pine Bark
St. Marks Refuge, Otter Lake

Virginia Creeper
(Parthenocissus quinquefolia)
St. Marks Refuge, Otter Lake

Eastern Redbud
(Cercis canadensis)
St. Marks Refuge, Otter Lake

Lizard's Tail
(Saururus cernuus)
in the swamp out my back door

Southern Cricket Frog
(Acris gryllus)
in the swamp out my backdoor

Common Yellow Woodsorrel
(Oxalis corniculata)
St. Marks Refuge in the firelane north of the 'Thompson 5 acre estate'

Sneezeweed
(Helenium pinnatifidum)
St. Marks Refuge, Buckhorn Creek Road

Sneezeweed
(Helenium pinnatifidum)
St. Marks Refuge, Buckhorn Creek Road

Sundew
(Drosera capillaris)
St. Marks Refuge, Buckhorn Creek Road

Purple Thistle
(Cirsium horridulum)
St. Marks Refuge, Buckhorn Creek Road

Salt Marsh Morning Twilight
St. Marks Refuge, Skipper Road

Dawn
St. Marks Refuge, Skipper Bay


Cedar Tree on narrow peninsula adjacent to salt marsh
St. Marks Refuge, shoreline of Skipper Bay

Twilight - L O N G exposure
Bottoms Road, north of Panacea

Swamp Chestnut Oak
(Quercus michauxii)
Wakulla Springs State Park

Pink Perfection Camelia
Wakulla Springs State Park

Cherokee Bean
(Erythrina herbacea)
Wakulla Springs State Park

Leaf of Southern Magnolia
(Magnolia grandiflora)
Wakulla Springs State Park

Indian Pink
aka Woodland Pinkroot
(Spigelia marilandica)
Wakulla Springs State Park


Saw Palmetto
(Serenoa repens)
St. Marks Refuge, Alligator Lake

American White Waterlily
(Nymphaea odorata)
St. Marks Refuge, in sink adjacent to Otter Lake loop road

Bud of Longleaf Pine
(Pinus palustris)
St. Marks Refuge, Alligator Lake

Atamasco Lily
aka Rainlily
(Zephyranthes atamasca)
St. Marks Refuge, Lighthouse Road


Eastern Daisy Fleabane
(Erigeron annuus)
St. Marks Refuge, Forest Road 105


Swamp Leather Flower
(Clematis crispa)
St. Marks Refuge, Forest Road 105

Leaf of American Beuatyberry
(Callicarpa americana)
along my driveway

Lone Star Tick
on the leg of Robertus Thompsonii

Grape Vine Bojangle
along my driveway

Grassleaf Roseling
(Callisia graminea)
St. Marks Refuge, north of Panacea

Atlantic Poison Oak
(Toxicodendron pubescens)
St. Marks Refuge, north of Panacea

Cattail
St. Marks Refuge, Otter Lake

Fertile spore-bearing fronds of Cinnamon Fern
(Osmunda cinnamomea)

Hooded Pitcherplant
(Sarracenia minor)
St. Marks Refuge, east of Spring Creek Highway

Cinnamon Fern

Flowers of Parrot Pitcherplant
(Sarracenia psittacina)
St. Marks Refuge, Buckhorn Creek Road

Bearded Grasspink orchid
(Calopogon barbatus)

Leaves of Southern Magnolia
along the Tallahasse-St. Marks  Historic Railroad State Trail

Leaves of Sweet Gum
along the Tallahasse-St. Marks  Historic Railroad State Trail

Leaves of Southern Magnolia
along the Tallahasse-St. Marks  Historic Railroad State Trail

Fronds of Cabbage Palm
(Sabal Palmetto)
along the Tallahasse-St. Marks  Historic Railroad State Trail

Friday, June 14, 2019

March 2019

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Camellia flowers
along Purify Bay Road



Resurrection Fern
(Pleopeltis michauxiana)

Oaks along Shoreline of Sink
Bice Road, Apalachicola National Forest

A river doesn’t just carry water, it carries life.
     -Amit  Kalantri

St. Marks River in the Natural Bridge Battlefield Historic
State Park


Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)
Wakulla Springs State Park



Don’t count the days, make the 
days count -Muhammad Ali

Bearded Grass Pink Orchid
(Calopogon barbatus)
St. Marks Refuge, Buckhorn Creek Road

Bracken Fern
(Pteridium aquilinum)

Weeee! Wisteria


Wild Azalea (Rhododendron viscosum)
St. Marks Refuge, Surf Road

Sand Fandango 1
Mashes Sands

Sand Fandango 2
Mashes Sands

Coasting
Mashes Sands/Ochlockonee Bay

"... there is no such thing as a small act of kindness.
Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."
-Scott Adams

Florida Flame Azalea
(Rhododendron austrinum)
in my yard!


Palamedes Swallowtail
(
Papilio palamedes)

Ahhhh - Broadhead Skink
(Plestiodon laticeps)

... do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am -
a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader,
a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of
yourselves and your lives for pleasure and
adventure. It is not enough to fight for the
land; it is even more important to enjoy it. ...
get out there ... and mess around with your
friends, ramble out  yonder and explore the
forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks,
run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet
sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while
and contemplate the precious stillness, the
lovely, mysterious, and  awesome space.
-Edward Abbey


Fedderbush Making More
(Lyonia lucida)

Cinnamon Fern
(Osmundastrum cinnamomeum)


Feathers

Deerberry
(Vaccinium stamineum)
aka gooseberry

Sparkleberry
(Vaccinium arboreum)

Rattlebox
(Crotalaria sp)
This is a bad boy exotic plant

Bee-fly
The long proboscis is used for drinking nectar and the fly 
is totally harmless

Lady Lupine
(Lupinus villosus)
St. Marks Refuge, Carraway Cutoff

Turkey Oak Sapling

Fence Lizard
(Sceloporus undulatus)


Candyroot
(Polygala nana)