
Deer Tongue






“Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose…” – Walt Whitman – Song of the Open Road – thanks to Chris Highland – Meditations of Walt Whitman.

“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.”
― Suzy Kassem

“Forever is composed of nows”
― Emily Dickinson
My favorite wildflower – I’ve made it almost 3 weeks without posting one. |:>). This time of year, Black Point Drive (a wildlife drive in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge) is lined with them.

“The career of flowers differs from ours only in inaudibleness. I feel more reverence as I grow for these mute creatures whose suspense or transport may surpass my own.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Though it may never come again is what makes it so sweet.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Fortune befriends the bold.”
― Emily Dickinson
Florida is the only place in the United States that the Limpkin can be found.