Bird day has moved to Mondays!!
What a wonderful place Central Florida is. The wetlands, the gardens, the beaches….yikes! Wetlands, Cocoa, and Canaveral on the weekend agenda. (Actually writing this post on Saturday morning).
Bird Day #9
Category: nature
Random Bugs
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” – Richard Bach
The dragonfly escapes the butterflies problem. I will have to investigate the life cycle of the dragonfly.
Quote found at http://www.quotegarden.com/butterflies.html
Web and a Butterfly
I think as the weather gets hotter, there may be more bugs than birds. Not sure how the flowers will hold up.
Flowers in the Trees
These trees are unusual in that the flowers appear long before the leaves. More on Leu Gardens in future posts.
Reflecting
“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” Friedrick Niezstche
Quote found at https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/reflection
Walk in the Park
“If you don’t like the road you are walking on, start paving another one.” Dolly Parton
The sand hill cranes were traveling. I later saw them walking down the middle of the road – outside the park about a mile or two from where I first spotted them. Sand hill cranes concern me – they do not seem to have an awareness of cars. I’ve encountered them on roads several times, seemingly unconcerned with the cars.
Quote found at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/walking_4.html
Poser
Squirrels are not usually a target of my photography, but this guy begged to have his picture taken.
Lunch Time
The alligators were very active Sunday morning. A count was done recently and the determined there are 1700+ alligators in the park. That works out to be a little over 1 per acre. Yikes!
Sittin on a log – Part 2
This fellow was cooperative yesterday.
Mushrooms
Found a new spot. Lake Monroe Wildlife Management Area, part of the St Johns River system, this primitive park is along the eastern edge of Lake Monroe. It was a very wet hike, swampy, but a nice old oak forest and pine upland area. While the birds were noisy they were well hidden. Dragon flies were epic with some nice flowers about.
I’d have to guess I was the first on the trail for a while, first hike where I actually soldiered through the swamp, getting quite wet in the process. Well worth it – I was able to engage my “living in old Florida” fantasy – it was excellent – I will be back.
Picture This by Frank 