The sunset colors reflect off the clouds on an unsettled evening over the Florida prairie

Easter Lily

Coral Cove County Park in Jupiter Inlet, Florida

Petroglyphs and rainbow at Signal Hill in Saguaro National Park outside of Tucson AZ.

Predawn light over Rosemary Scrub

Country corssing. A railroad I cross every day on the way to work, but this morning the fog and light was special...what's a few minutes late to work?

Dawn at Hagen's cove on Florida's northern Gulf coast

Earth shadow on Atlantic coast north of Washington Oak Gardens State Park near Crescent Beach, Florida.

Camilia bloom

Hazard Rocks near Naragansett, Rhode Island

Sunset on Rosemary Hill at Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, FL

Sunset over Lake Huron from the west side of Mackinac Island in the Michigan straits

Full moon light on the fresh water marshes of Myakka River State Park near Sarasota, Florida

Sunrise surf at Cocoa Beach, Florida

Black and white studio shot of a chrysanthemum

Evening mist rolls in on a pond in central Michigan

A banded Florida Scrub-Jay that is part of the long-term study of this species at Archbold Biological Station in Lake Placid, Florida

Summer evening on Lake Annie, one of the oldest and deepest lakes on the Lake Wales Ridge in south-central Florida

The swirling waves and coquina rocks emerging from the surf made me think of primative creatures first emerging from a primorial sea to first walk on land

Tomoka Run is a little blackwater creek that runs through Lake June-in-Winter State park in Lake Placid, FL. This park is on the lake Wales Ridge. This is an HDR image... not sure how I feel about these images yet...

Crab spider on Ashe's Savory, Calamintha asheii

Sunrise on Boneyard Beach, Big Talbot island State Park

Oaks on Boneyard Beach in Big Talbot Island State Park

Boulders in Lake Michigan at the base of the Empire Bluffs, Sleeping Bear Dunes

The yin/yang of fire....giver of life and death

Palmettos after a fire

Summer sunset on Lake Annie, one of the oldest and deepest lakes on the Lake Wales Ridge, in south-central Florida

First fall color in central Michigan

Seasonal pond at Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, FL

Sensual folds of a cypress tree deep in a Florida swamp

Photo of a sunset over Lake Jackson in Sebring, Florida. Taken with my cell phone and then manipulated in PS5 to give it a painterly effect.

Last light on the Atlantic at Coral Cove Park in Jupiter Inlet, Florida

Rock and sky patterns at Montana de Oro State Park, CA.

Detail of the flower of prickly pear (Opuntia humifusa). Although not thought of as a common plant to Florida, its is common to abundant in many habitats, including scrub.

Cabbage palm frond amid sawgrass with cypress trees in the distance, Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida

Tri-colored Heron in breeding plumage at Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Sanibel Island, FL

Dawn at Snooker's Cove in Montana de Oro State Park, near Los Osos. CA.

Ghostly skeletons of burned shrubs emerge from the smoke after a prescribed fire in central Florida

Still life of boulders and reeds, Cape Anne, Massachusetts

Sunrise on Black Rock Beach on Big Talbot Island State Park, Florida

Sunset through a dust storm by the petroglyphs at Signal Hill, Saguaro National Monument, Arizona

Blue curls (Trichostema dichotomum) is a member of the mint family and common throughout Florida and the eastern half of North America, including the southern provinces of Canada. In Florida, it naturally occurs in a wide variety of well-drained habitats and colonizes disturbed sites fairly quickly as well.

Ferns in palm hammock at Alexander Springs State Park in Ocala National Forest

Waves and sunlight in Lake Jackson near Sebring, FL