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Category: Florida State Parks
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Bloomin' grasses! Guana River State Park, Florida, native grasses.
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Shadows and leaves intertwined with sunlight, like fingers acting out a child's nursery rhyme.
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Beach renourishment is complete. Welcome back to Anastasia Island State Park! A silvery morning gives way to a beautiful clear day.
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If life is "but a dream," then the paradox is that the only way to realize this is to wake up! Spanish moss hanging from the trees in Blue Spring State Park, Florida.
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Sometimes numbers are difficult to wrap your mind around. The banana spider, or golden orb spider, or writer spider, is the oldest surviving spider on earth. To the tune of 165 million years! That's a really really long time. Compare that to humans and our nearest ancestors, the chimpanzee, and we clock…
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Is the oak tree burdened by the spanish moss that adorns it? My dad used to say to us, "You are the joy of my declining years." (He was in his 40's when he said this!) Twenty odd years earlier, he was a young father of 4 children under 4 years…
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Lucky Anhinga, everything it needs within diving or flying distance, enjoying the feast of the Everglades, without worries- not even bothered by the tourists on the boardwalk snapping photos. Maybe we humans are just tourists on this planet. We seem to have organized ourselves in very strange and self defeating ways. …
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The earth has its own intelligence. In Iceland there are hot springs, in Florida - cold! The entire state of Florida sits on an aquifer that not only provides all of the water needs for millions of people but is also a ridiculously wonderful way to cool off in the heat of summer.…
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What lurks in yonder wood? Alligators and snakes, frogs and bugs, and all kinds of creepy, crawly, things. From a boat, however, it is rather picturesque. The cypress trees and their knees.
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