Summer Clouds Over The Savannahs
by terranovabay
Summer clouds drift over the extensive wetlands at the Indrio Savannahs.
Categories: Weather • Tags: clouds, Indrio Savannahs
Recondite Greenhouses
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A rare midweek holiday – July 4th – allowed me to pay an early morning visit to the Demonstration Garden at the University of Florida’s IFAS facility outside of Ft. Pierce in a quest to find insects and other small critters for my bug program currently in production. What I remembered as a beautiful walk through native plants and their habitats from a few years ago is now an overgrown morass of invasive exotics with native plants struggling to survive. […]
Categories: Scenery • Tags: Demonstration Garden, Ft. Pierce, IFAS, Institute of Food and Agricultural Services, St. Lucie County, University of Florida
Summer Storm Approaching
by terranovabay
A common sight in Florida during the summer, the fast moving cloudburst. Enough to temporarily cool things down if you are close to it, but the resulting increase in humidity when the storm passes can be quite oppressive.
Categories: Weather • Tags: Cumulonimbus, rain, storm, Thunderhead
Orange For Life
by terranovabay
A Gulf Fritillary, its proboscis rolled up, relaxes in the Sun in the Audubon House pollinator garden.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Agraulis vanillae, Audubon House, Gulf Fritillary, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
Golden Foot
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A large Mydas Fly wakes with the dawn on a dewy blade of grass at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Mydas Fly, Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, PINWR
Sunday Spider
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A Leucauge argyra spider found along one of the trails at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Leucauge argyra, Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, PINWR
Cassius Blue Lovers And An Ant
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Two Cassius Blue butterflies mating on a Saturday morning with an ant in attendance. Seen at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA) on a very hot and humid morning.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Ant, butterfly, Cassius Blue, Leptotes cassius, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
CRS-15
by terranovabay
A time exposure shows the last SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 4 rocket arcing up into the sky before vanishing below the horizon after lifting off at 5:42 a.m. on 29 June 2018 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on the fifteenth Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-15) mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on behalf of NASA. Both Falcon 9 and the Dragon spacecraft for the CRS-15 mission are flight-proven. Falcon 9’s first stage previously supported […]
Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Commercial Resupply Services, CRS-15, Falcon 9, International Space Station, ISS, NASA, SpaceX
Wary Mockingbird
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Continuing with yesterday’s post, the Mockingbirds are still wary of Sam the dog and keep a close eye on him as he is perambulating through the front yard.
Categories: Nature • Tags: dog, Mimus polyglottos, Northern Mockingbird, Sam
Mad Mockingbird
by terranovabay
Every time Sam the dog goes into the front yard two Northern Mockingbirds appear as if from nowhere and they are both in a state of wild rage directed towards Sam. The Mockingbirds are defending their territory, of which my front yard belongs to them, and they must be defending a nest otherwise it is hard to fathom what else might set them off. Especially since the rest of the year the birds leave Sam alone when he makes an […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: dog, Mimus polyglottos, Northern Mockingbird, Sam
