Florida White Birds Love Mowed Grass

Recently, the lawn service people mowed the fields in our neighborhood.  And a white flock quickly flew in for the bug hunt of the day!  These white birds dug deeply when rooting around for bugs and such...and they aerate the land at the same time.  Multi-tasking Birds!  Yippee!

Snapdragons, Teaberries, and Neveah!

Three streets in Parkside West are named Snapdragon, Teaberry and Neveah. 

Playful Snapdragons... Pop one of the many flowers open like a puppet.  You are a puppeteer! Fun.

Fragrant Teaberries...Tiny white bell-shaped flowers followed by red berries along branches that smell of wintergreen.  The bubble-gum plant! For Clark's Teaberry Flavored Gum.  The Teaberry name stems from colonists during the Revolution using these fragrant wintergreen leaves to make tea, while boycotting English Tea!

Neveah ... Neveah is a variation

of Heaven

spelled backward. 

Amen. 

Tree Frog

Patrick and this little critter have seen each other often in the last few weeks.  Tonight I captured him on film.  Can't tell if it is a native tree frog or a cuban tree frog, both being in Florida, but I think it is a native tree frog...or maybe it is just a "wall" frog.  Cute....

Reflections

After a whiplash of high winds and continuous rains, seeing the pond

with still waters and reflections is soothing.

Red Sky at Night

Red sky at night,
Sailor's delight;
Red sky in morning,
Sailor take warning.

Nature's Bountiful Wild Blossoms

This multicolored bouquet of Mother Nature is surrounded by what looks in the picture like Baby's Breath.  Not...but nifty!

                                                                                                               Pink blooms

Yellow Blooms...sunlit flowers.

Red Sky at Night

The sky was brilliant aqua.  My camera inside.  Ran.  Got it.  Aqua gone, red gorgeous.  August 18, 2011

Fun with remote controlled boats on a Parkside West pond.

Late Afternoon...a Rainbow Sky in July



 Ribbons of lavender, rose and blue

Create a spectacular sundown

With colorful reflection upon the pond

Beyond the plentiful lavender crepe myrtles blooms. 

Pink Flowers in the Fields

Earth laughs in flowers. 
               Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"

Wildflower

Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower.
                                                                            Unknown

Dragonflies Hop the Pond and Reflect upon its Water

My grandmothers and my great grandmother used to tell my sister and I that a dragonfly was a blessing and arrived to herald in good news or good people arriving soon.  They also told us that "darning needles" would stitch our fingers together.  I always wondered how the Darning Needles and the Dragon Flies, which to me were one and the same, could share good news while knitting on my fingers.   Hummm....

These dragonflies were photographed on our pond, hopping along the water, making one puddling circle after another and reflecting their images perfectly across the water.  Come again, often, dear dragonflies!

Florida's Sandhill Cranes with their brilliant red crowns are an endangered species.  We are pleased that two often visit our pond and home.  They have the most interesting discussions!  Each one creates unique, almost trumpeting, sounds that can be heard a very long way.  And they dance, jumping high...especially in mating season.  Come often Sandhill Cranes...we enjoy your visits. 

Little Blue Heron In Flight

Even when a bird walks, one feels it has wings.
Antoine-Marin Lemierre

Palms and a Street Light Profile Against the Gorgeous Sunset in July

Meadowlark

Eastern Meadowlark

"I Love You" by Sara Teasdale

"... The meadow-larks will know,

And pipe the three words lightly

To all the winds that blow."

                     Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.  

                                                                                                  Herman Melville

July Sunset in Parkside West on Space Coast of Florida

Even the clouds say "poof" because the sky is magical...