Shore Acres State Park – Coos Bay – Oregon – Part 1 – 2021
After the long months of lockdown in 2020, I was ready to hit the road (air actually) for a…
Silver Springs State Park, Florida – 2021
When my family first moved to Florida a “long” time ago there was no Disney World or Universal! We went to the quirky roadside attractions Florida was known for. One of the biggest and most famous was…
Robinson Preserve – Bradenton, Florida
With the increase in Covid 19 vaccinations the camera club I belong to in Tampa, Florida, decided it was time to have an in-person meet-up but outdoors. One of our members suggested Robinson Preserve in Bradenton so I …
Bok Tower Gardens, Lake Wales, FL – 2020
A friend and I decided we needed to make a quick trip to one of Florida’s iconic tourist destinations to put a final exclamation point on the all too memorable year that was 2020!
North Georgia – Autumn – 2020
2020 was one of those years! A couple of my friends and I decided we needed a few days away from home, out in nature for some fall color, so we booked a house in Blairsville, GA. As two of us prepared to fly to Atlanta and then drive a rental SUV to Blairsville, Hurricane Zeta was doing its thing in the Gulf of Mexico. We thought…
Rainbow Springs State Park, Dunnellon, Florida – 2020
After spending all summer walking and photographing the local parks we decided it was time to try one of the state parks that was outside the local area. I had never been to…
Traveling Locally – Local Parks – Tampa Bay Area – 2020
Upon my return from Longwood Gardens in March, 2020, the world shut down. After about 2 months of walking in circles in my yard, …
Longwood Gardens – My Search for the Himalayan Blue Poppy – Kennett Square, PA – Part 1 – 2020
In early 2020 after visiting a couple of botanical gardens in Arizona, I decided to make the trip up to Pennsylvania to my favorite garden in the US,…