Ann took this photo of me trying to get a shot of a wasp’s nest!
Today is our last day here at Ann and Cecil’s place.
This is the picture I was shooting in the header photo. Ann followed soon after with a can of wasp spray!
Cecil drove a friend to a doctor’s appointment in Gainesville. Ann was exhausted from spending too much time in the kitchen lately. Ron went to town and wandered around there for a while. So I took the opportunity to hunt down photo subjects.
We also did our own dinners tonight. I grilled seasoned zucchini squash and sauteed chicken tenders, onions, peppers and garlic for an easy one-dish meal.
A fuzzy photo of a male chameleon courting the ladies.
Since I don’t have any exciting adventures to share today, I’ll just post photos again. 🙂
This lady wasn’t impressed!
Cecil wasn’t sure whether this was Fred or Joe. 😀
Cecil has gopher tortoises on his property, and I thought this was one of their holes. But Cecil said it was probably an armadillo hole.
Tender, tasty baby bullbrier leaves
Florida is for bugs. 😦
Cool tree skeleton
Discrimination. 🙂
Evidence the raccoons are eating the apple snails.
Field of oxalis
Baby wild muscadine grape leaves
Greenbriers will keep putting on tender, tasty shoots until midsummer
Leatherleaf florist’s ferns
Closeup of the beautiful shamrock-like oxalis
Maturing poke salad. At this point it is dangerously poisonous.
The requisite Sheba-in-the-pond photo. 🙂
Turtles in the pond
A carpet of Virginia creeper
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Marcia GB
/ April 15, 2013Lots of interesting shots. Where to next?
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tinycamper
/ April 15, 2013Next to Eastbank COE, then to Ft. Pickens!
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lynne
/ April 15, 2013I can see it now! It would not go there when I first tried (and tried about 4 times.)
Love the picture of the shamrock oxalis….it looks beautiful! What time of day was the picture taken? And the picture of Sheba in the water…great.
Don’t think the words tender, tasty and baby go with the word, bullbrier. Just doesn’t sound right!
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tinycamper
/ April 15, 2013The disappearing page was my fault. I accidentally hit Publish instead of Preview after I got the first picture uploaded. So I trashed it and started over. Sorry! 🙂
The flower pictures were taken at the worst possible time — around 1:00 pm. But they were in deep shade, so it worked.
Isn’t that a hoot about the bullbrier description. I didn’t notice what an oxymoron it sounded like when I was typing it! 😀
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thymelesssageandrandomrants
/ April 15, 2013The poke plant at that stage? I cut the leaves off, slice the stem, roll in a mixture of flour, corn meal, and salt, and fry in hot oil like okra. I haven’t died…yet. I heard the berries were poisonous. We made ink out of them as kids but were always told not to eat them, however, a little girl ate some from the field behind the playground one recess (not on my watch, thank goodness) and she lived also. The nurse did drive her to the ER just in case.
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tinycamper
/ April 15, 2013thymeless, I had heard that one of the ways poke shoots were cooked was to roll them in corn meal and fry them. But I thought it had to be the very young shoots. There is so much misinformation in the wild foods literature. I REALLY appreciate your input.
People have such a fear of wild edibles. Samuel Thayer has done more to debunk a lot of the myths about “poisonous wild edibles” than anyone I know of. I do wish that you would write him and share your experience with him. Maybe he will scientifically debunk it for everyone in a future book. I do know that the root really is deadly poisonous as I have read accounts of people dying when accidentally gathering part of the root with the shoots. But the above-ground parts must not be nearly as dangerous as is commonly rumored.
Thanks again for sharing your experience!
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Carolyn
/ April 15, 2013hahaaa all the pictures are beautiful but you got to know that Ann’s picture of you taking the picture of the wasp’s nest. is the best! .. HAhaaaa….. love it
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tinycamper
/ April 15, 2013I thought it was hilarious. Glad you got a kick out of it, too! 😀
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Carolyn
/ April 15, 2013too many HAhaaa;s .. take out the last one … 😉
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tinycamper
/ April 15, 2013Can’t EVER have too many hahas! 😀
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Kim
/ April 15, 2013Great photos illustrating how life abounds.
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tinycamper
/ April 15, 2013I seem to have retained a childlike wonder at the miracle of all living things. At least I am very easily entertained! 🙂
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Jo
/ April 16, 2013I was so happy to be able to have a face to go with your blog. I found it when I was looking over Kim’s pictures of the camping trip.
Your pictures today are really nice. The flowers are so pretty.
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tinycamper
/ April 16, 2013Hi, Jo. I rarely post pictures of myself because I’m self conscious about being so overweight! But it was fun to have Kim take pictures and post them. I like having faces to go with blogs, too.
Glad you enjoyed the pictures. We are leaving this morning, but I will miss all the beauty and good company here!
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cozybegone
/ April 16, 2013Some will sure go to great heights to capture the moment :O) That’s skill! You sure captured your surroundings and so refreshing to see the beauty through your eyes. Looks like Sheba is into her element…chilling out,
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tinycamper
/ April 16, 2013Whatever it takes! 😀
I think Sheba’s going to be as good about “Be still while I take a picture,” as Sunny is. So amazing how far she has come. I am so glad we hung in there with her!
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Sue
/ April 16, 2013Wonderful pictures! Thank you. 🙂
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tinycamper
/ April 16, 2013So glad you liked them. I wondered if they were a little too mundane. 🙂
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Elizabeth in NC
/ April 17, 2013Did you know that armadillos carry leprosy?? Maybe you are the blogger who shared that awhile back…I would not want one of them on my property that is for sure!!
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tinycamper
/ April 17, 2013Yes, Elizabeth, I had that on my blog a while back. I wouldn’t want them on my property either! I read that even working in the dirt around them can be dangerous. Fortunately that is an area of the property where no one ever goes… except me when I’m wandering around looking for photos.
If it were my property, I would probably put some kind of trap or bait at the entrance of that hole, though.
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