Tag: nature

  • Water Water Everywhere – Boat Shed

    Water Water Everywhere – Boat Shed

    Reflection of the trail bridge at Cedar Point. This nature park is part of the Timucuan Parks Foundation and is run by the National Park Service. It is located at the southern end of Black Hammock Island in Jacksonville, Florida.

  • Bird Weekly Round-Up – Week #12

    Bird Weekly Round-Up – Week #12

    I think we all take Seagulls for granted because they are everywhere. From the seaside to the landfills. Along the beaches and in the Walmart parking lot. They are opportunistic birds! We had a wonderful array of gulls in this week’s challenge including several I have never seen before.

  • Sunday Stills – Winter Snow – nonexistent

    Sunday Stills – Winter Snow – nonexistent

    Since I live in Florida, Winter and Snow are not in my vocabulary. In Jacksonville, it will get chilly and we will even have freezing temperatures on some nights from January-March. It’s rare we have a hard freeze. A hard freeze is temperatures that dip below 28-30 degrees fahrenheit for several days. That never happens…

  • Water Water Everywhere – Willet in the Surf

    Water Water Everywhere – Willet in the Surf

    Photos by Jez is the new host of WWE that is a weekly challenge posted on Monday. Willet and it’s reflection in the surf at Little Talbot Island State Park in Jacksonville, Florida.

  • Bird Weekly Round-Up – Week #11

    Bird Weekly Round-Up – Week #11

    I have to make mention of one of the coolest things this week and that is the Snowy Owl. The bird in my photo and in Beth’s photo is the same bird. I mean…the exact same bird. Mine taken in Jacksonville and her’s taken in Georgia at the end of 2013, beginning of 2014. We…

  • FOTD – Night Blooming Cereus

    FOTD – Night Blooming Cereus

    It has been 2 years since we have seen a flower, but we haven’t stayed up all night to wait for one either. This one was still in full bloom by the morning 2 years ago, making it the last flower we have seen from this plant. Rare capture!

  • Water Water Everywhere – Cedar Point

    Water Water Everywhere – Cedar Point

    Reflection of the trail bridge at Cedar Point. This nature park is part of the Timucuan Parks Foundation and is run by the National Park Service. It is located at the southern end of Black Hammock Island in Jacksonville, Florida.

  • Bird Weekly Round-Up – Week #10

    Bird Weekly Round-Up – Week #10

    Week #10 challenge was Yellow or Orange Legged Birds. Lots of ducks and shorebirds, chickens and penguins, a loon and a Scarlet Ibis! Pelicans are my favorite bird…sorry for the prejudiceness, but they are and we had some people American White Pelicans adorn our monitors this week.

  • FOTD – Butterfly in the Garden – Haiku

    FOTD – Butterfly in the Garden – Haiku

    buzz, butterfly buzz futtering, sipping nectar bring joy in color

  • #Write Photo – Mother’s Nature

    #Write Photo – Mother’s Nature

    Blue skies covered in gray raging, promising to stay nurture the fields of dead adorn in green instead.