Blue Planet Special


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Upland Oases




Hurry up and slow down. Then you’ll hear them calling. The quiet out of the way places that remember you when you were just a kid. You can never go back? Says who? Go.





The true south is about nature, not man. Muse, Glades County.





Morning's door. Oak hammock. Muse, Glades County.




Who washes webs? Muse, Glades County.




Worlds are smaller in the fog. S.R. 78, Lee County.




We may not normally give this tree a second look -- until nature does.
Southern Slash Pine (Pinus elliottii). S.R. 78, Lee County.




The land that time remembered, then left alone. Cabbage palmettos (Sabal palmetto) and saw palmettos (serenoa repens). Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Collier County.




Christmas Tinsel. Spanish Moss (Tillandsia usneoides). Hawthorne Creek, De Soto County.




Musical notes growing wild. Spanish Moss (Tillandsia usneoides), which is often home to tiny red spider mites. Hawthorne Creek, De Soto County.




Everyone should remember to hang up their clothes. Spanish Moss (Tillandsia usneoides). Hawthorne Creek, De Soto County.




Pecking order. Black vulture (Coragyps atratus). Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve, Collier County.



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