And the sea taketh
23 Julai, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Purple Martins start staging
2 Julai, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Sometimes you need some dirt road
2 Julai, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Little gem of the beaten track
25 Jun, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
The sea taketh, the sea giveth
18 Jun, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌬 28 °C
Today it struck me how much the sea had taken next to the house. In the past there was a road her where the sea is now and it’s still eating away just where the road ends now. Soon the last utilityBaca lagi
Tidal wetlands behind the Dunes
11 Jun, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Why do the trees all bend the same way?
11 Jun, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Palms adapting to the vanishing sea
11 Jun, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Eastern Bearch Tiger Beetle
11 Jun, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Beach Tiger Beetles as the name indicates are beach specialists. I’ve found several species on the beaches here. This is the Eastern Beach Tiger Beetle. I think they are cute.
The Pelicans did disappoint
11 Jun, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Often, there are many on these pillars of a past sea wall
Sun and fog in the forest
11 Jun, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Early sunrise
11 Jun, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Nature creating beauty
4 Jun, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Ashley Feed: my favorite feed store.
4 Jun, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Dunes walking over the Road
4 Jun, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌬 24 °C
Dunes walk. The dominant wind at one side picks up the sand and then deposits it on the back side. And they don’t care if we humans have made a road. They will just cross it without looking left orBaca lagi
Maritime Hammock
4 Jun, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌬 24 °C
In the maritime hammock, plant life is geared toward surviving in a relative harsh climate and environment with higher levels of salt then elsewhere and relative dry.
Intercoastal flats.
4 Jun, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌬 24 °C
Terns at the Spit
4 Jun, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌬 24 °C
The past two weeks, our usual collection of teens was missing at the spit. A few have shown up today.
The gap is closed for now.
4 Jun, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌬 23 °C
The beach ecosystem is so dynamic. The stream reaching the beach is ephemeral in that it comes to a still and the sea fill the gap and the plants take over n their normal sequence of colonization. InBaca lagi
The sea eating away the beach
4 Jun, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌬 23 °C
Part of the beach we survey for turtle nests is slowly but very surely eaten away. Today the wind is considerable and the waves are doing what they do best.
Mother Nature creating her art.
28 Mei, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Horseshoe crab with a lot of barnacles
21 Mei, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Most of the time I do t see that many on them.
Long stretches of beach without anybody
21 Mei, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Blue crab on the beach (dead)
21 Mei, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Natural Beach Art
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