And the sea taketh
23 juli, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Purple Martins start staging
2 juli, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Sometimes you need some dirt road
2 juli, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Little gem of the beaten track
25 juni, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
The sea taketh, the sea giveth
18 juni, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌬 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 utilityLäs mer
Tidal wetlands behind the Dunes
11 juni, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Why do the trees all bend the same way?
11 juni, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Palms adapting to the vanishing sea
11 juni, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Eastern Bearch Tiger Beetle
11 juni, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 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 juni, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Often, there are many on these pillars of a past sea wall
Sun and fog in the forest
11 juni, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Early sunrise
11 juni, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Nature creating beauty
4 juni, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Ashley Feed: my favorite feed store.
4 juni, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Dunes walking over the Road
4 juni, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌬 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 orLäs mer
Maritime Hammock
4 juni, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌬 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 juni, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌬 24 °C
Terns at the Spit
4 juni, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌬 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 juni, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌬 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. InLäs mer
The sea eating away the beach
4 juni, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌬 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 maj, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Horseshoe crab with a lot of barnacles
21 maj, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Most of the time I do t see that many on them.
Long stretches of beach without anybody
21 maj, Förenta staterna ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Blue crab on the beach (dead)
21 maj, Förenta staterna ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Natural Beach Art
21 maj, Förenta staterna ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C