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,…
Universal Orlando Resort – Florida – 2020
In late January of 2020 I got a call from my sister. She and my niece were going to Universal Orlando and since I had purchased an annual pass in December I thought I could get an early start on using it! Little did I know that it would be my last time seeing any of my family in person for over a year and that the annual pass would go unused after…
Desert Botanical Garden – Phoenix, Arizona – Part 5 – 2020
I had added an extra day onto my time in Arizona so I planned to make one more stop in Phoenix before I headed to the airport. I spent the night in Tucson and drove to …
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum – Tucson, AZ – Part 4 – 2020
The macro workshop I was attending was completed but I had decided to stay in Arizona for a couple more days. I wanted to revisit the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum that I had visited the last time I was…