As mentioned earlier, these mushrooms don’t last very long. Today, the third day I’ve seen it, the mushroom has withered to a moist mass of glutinous material. There are three more growing nearby, so there will be more. They do, however, look very strange, and smell like rotting meat (although I didn’t get on my [...]

These things puff up and die off pretty quickly. I haven’t been up the street yet today, but I’m sure it’s just about gone. There were two others coming up, with the white outer caps breaking through the wood chips. I went on my longer walk yesterday afternoon of 6+ km, down where they’ll shoot [...]

Taken a few days ago after making a couple additional videos of a mangrove estuary. I’ll have to overdub the audio. There were a bunch of noisy kids in kayaks, and other playing upstream from me that just would not stop yelling and screaming. I guess that’s just the nature of the kids, although if [...]

Florida Intercoastal at Anne Kolb Nature Center: Taken with instagram (Via Art & Code.)

I was going to meet a friend when this hawk landed in the middle of the street to catch and eat a lizard. I stopped and let the action unfold. Finally, I got my last short outside the car, then it flew across the railroad tracks and landed high up in a tree. (Red-shouldered Hawk?)