March 2019

I hope you enjoy viewing these 41 photos. 

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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)