This is our entry for the Photo Friday After Dark challenge. It had rained all afternoon so the frogs were in fine form after dark. They don’t like my lights so I usually have to sneak up on them, hit them with the light quickly and take my shot. Sometimes I find one so determined…
Cypress Twig Gall Midge
We had never heard of a Cypress Twig Gall Midge until last week. When we stopped for Quinn to take his photo of the sunning turtle, I took a closer look at the Bald Cypress growing at the edge of the pond at the St. Augustine Road Fish Management area. There were quite a few gray growths all…
Photo Friday: What I Found
This week’s Photo Friday Challenge, “What I Found” is perfect for this week’s images from our walk around the ponds at the St. Augustine Road Fish Management Area. Quinn found a turtle sunning itself on a log in the South pond and took quite a photo – the turtle (a cooter or a slider – we…
Photo Friday: Season of Sun
This week’s Photo Friday topic is “Season of Sun” – and so it is – in our front yard, anyway.I want to leave them and let them go to seed for the birds, but Ned, the gardener in the family, wants to cut them down as soon as they get droopy. We’ll see.