Calusa Nature Center – perfect morning for a walk in the flatwoods and the swamp. It’s pretty close to where I live, and I had other errands to run this morning, so why not stop by instead of passing by? Plus, we have that extra hour in the morning now that we “fell back” on Sunday, and I was a bundle of energy because of that. Let’s go!
A couple of rehabilitating gators were sunning themselves near their watering hole.
The American beauty berry is in a full riot of fruit.
Parts of the swamp are already drying up and becoming lined with fallen leaves.
Dahoon holly trees are heavy with fruit in the cypress swamp and along the pine loop trail
Something has raked this tree. Gashes look too wide for it to be a bear or a bobcat. Not sure how this happened!
A closer look at the mystery gashes.
Still water in the cypress swamp, and since the berries are popping and the leaves are falling, there are lots of feeding little birdies visible and audible here.
A new little tree struggles to bring itself up beside the boardwalk. I predict a relocation of one or the other!
I have found a lot of things while out walking that other people lost. But I never thought someone could lose their face..
Disappointing
Cassia in bloom
Cabbage palm regeneraging – not sure if the folded-up-ness is normal, as I’ve never seen one do this before!
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Barred owl
Someone with very good eyes spotted this fellow, who was very good about the paparazzi surrounding him.
Old pulley in the woods
9:47 AM – We speculated that maybe this was used in connection with hunting. You can see that it has been kissed by the prescribed burn that occurred back in December.
Plenty of hidey-holes
Old dead trees play host to all manner of plant and animal life. In nature, nothing is wasted.
Lichen on a tree
It looks like lettuce, but it’s really the perfect marriage between algae and fungus.
The buffalo tree
This live oak is probably a couple hundred years old. It looks like a buffalo head is emerging from its trunk.
Carolina willow
This plant is also known as the coastal plain willow. Fun fact: fire will turn it from a tree to a shrub
Probing for his lunch
A male (full red cap) red belly woodpecker seeks a snack on the edge of the cypress forest
Christmas tree at the Hard Rock Hotel, Orlando
We found Christmas in the lobby. Now playing: You shook me all night long…
More Grinchmas
The IoA Christmas store is hoppin’
Screeeeeeam!
Screams carry across the lake as Everest spits out another train-load of thrill-seekers.
Disney-fied Christmas tree at the Animal Kingdom
Looking forward to a day of strolling around this beautiful park today.
Christmas tree at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
Now entering Disney’s Hollywood Studios for my Muppet fix! But first, food…
In the shade of the monkey flower tree
This tree is the monkey flower, also called guacamayo. I wonder how that relates to guacamole? Wish I knew some Spanish!
While peering through the branches, twice I spied me a flash of silver "wings" – yes, fish can fly on the Caloosahatchee!
Barnebydendron riedelii, Central and South America
Legends! I wanna be one!
I can’t tell you how beautiful this day is. Here’s a hint. But really, photos cannot do it justice.
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Tangerine heaven
The fruit trees in EPCOT’s Morocco are just as full as the ones in DAK but I can’t reach these either darnit
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Pretty Princess Pink
Walking to mycar in Disney’s Animal Kingdom parking lot – beutiful flowering trees on the path along the way
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Wonder if that’s grapefruit?
I think it’s the right time of year for grapefruit in Florida. Love the Oasis!
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Lunchtime Stroll #swfl
My class is on a break so I’m taking this opportunity to wander the River District in Fort Myers, Florida
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Gone shelling
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Beachly Beauty
I have made it all the way to the second spoil island – perhaps I will make landfall soon LOL but righ now, I am just diggin’ the scenery here.
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Last night is an EPCOT night
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Riverside’s Christmas tree
Here’s the tree in the lobby at Disney’s Port Orleans Riverside resort
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For my friend and “cuz”, @jiminy102
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Tree of Life has competition at Disney’s Animal Kingdom
I love this tree – perfectly themed!
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Making my way toward Cinderella’s Castle
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Passing thru – I think we’re dining in Italy
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The tangerine grove #dak #disney
The tangerines are bearing green fruit on the Maharajah trail.
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Coming Soon: Next Trip to Orlando!
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I am scheduled to visit Orlando at the end of the month. I’ll be going to Universal for sure to see Harry Potter with some old friends from New York. Plan to stop by the EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival as well. Now that Disney has launched a new advertising campaign, I suppose these “Celebrate Today” banners will be gone. I wonder what will be in their place? Stay tuned!



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At the Epcot entrance…
The jacaranda trees are bloomming! Chez Bro and SIL ARE IN mOUSEgEAR – SHOPPORTUNITY!
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Shady glade on the rose walk
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🙂 EPCOT’s rose walk has the only bench that I know of in any of the Disney theme parks that has a market umbrella installed next to it. The umbrella is a testament to the fact that it’s a rare thing to find a shady spot along rose walk. There are two places where trees throw shade JUST off the walkway. Even if you can’t sit in that shade, it still brings a smidgen of relief just to look at it on a hot day.



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Picture perfect on the rocks at Disney’s EPCOT
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In Walt Disney World’s EPCOT theme park, just across the walkway from the China pavilion in the World Showcase, there is a certain rock formation that is distinctive because it has a “doughnut hole” shape cut into it. Many of you reading this may recognize it. Here’s what it looks like on a normal day in May.
During the winter holiday season, that same rock formation gets dressed up in red, China’s favorite color – we discussed this yesterday! Here’s what the area looks like adorned with festive red lanterns.
And here’s what it looks like when you are standing in the exact right spot on the path – the “doughnut hole” perfectly frames a lovely young tree that grows on an island in the middle of World Showcase lagoon.



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EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival drives away the winter doldrums
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During the winter time, even here in Florida it can be chilly and bleak. Right now, we’re having an unusually long cold snap, with temps plunging into the lower 30s at night and never making into the 60s during the day. So I went looking for outdoor, watery scenes full of flowers and color and spectacular skies for today’s post. Here’s EPCOT during the Flower and Garden Festival this past May (2009). The Festival will begin again in March – that’s only 2 months away! In the meantime, photographs and memories can keep us going until spring comes once more.



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What will YOU celebrate? at Disney’s EPCOT
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Are you going to Walt Disney World this year? I’m going in 16 more sleeps! Meeting my brother and sister-in-law there for his birthday/their anniversary. How many sleeps left for you? And when you get there – what will YOU celebrate?



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Royal poinciana on the Lee Island Coast
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🙂 One of the most beautiful trees I have ever seen is the royal poinciana. This tree is a native of Madagascar and is widely cultivated in the subtropical climate of south Florida. Generally, they are blooming profusely along about May of each year, but some of them are still blooming long after that, into the summer months. This one was captured in May of 2007, when my friends and I rented a boat and ran it out to Cabbage Key, a small vacation island that is part of the Lee Island Coast. I thought the color was especially striking and could not resist snapping away at it. The royal poinciana blooms in colors ranging from yellow through orange and into red. The green feathery foliage makes it doubly ornamental.
According to Wikipedia, there are lots of nicknames for the royal poinciana. It differs from country to country. But the name I like best is the one that the Vietnamese have given to this tree – the phoenix tail. There are two reasons I like “the phoenix tail” best. I like the concept of infinite opportunities for transformation, and it reminds me of Fawkes, the phoenix who lives with Professor Dumbledore in the Harry Potter stories. 🙂
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🙂 I was driving through a sudden shower, on my way over the causeway to a birthday dinner celebration for my friend Cheryl, when I happened to glance to my left and saw this rainbow hanging out near Fort Myers Beach. I pulled over at the first opportunity. If you look closely, you can see that it’s actually a double, which had started to fade by time I found a place to stop. This is one of the BEST things about living in Southwest Florida. The skies are so big and dramatic, with towering clouds and beautiful rainbows 🙂



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Sunset happens on Sanibel Island
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It crept up on us
while we dined and surfed the net
sunset blazed away
My Niece No. 2 and I are peas in a pod when it comes to leisure activities. While vacationing together on Sanibel Island this past July, we would have dinner each night and then happily tether to the 3G on my cell phone, each with her own laptop, geeking out to all manner of websites, social media and etc. And the first night we were there, we were so very happily geeking, we almost missed the sunset! As soon as we realized, we raced out there and snapped a few pictures, then raced back inside our cottage before the no-see-ums could do any major damage.
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