Nothing fancy. It was our first day of cold weather and the sky was perfectly blue and cloudless. Just a simple photo of the west end of our yard taken with my phone.


This was my entry into SkyWatch Friday. Go check out the more fabulous entries. 

Happy Nature Watching!

• Florida covers 58,560 square miles of area. 4,298 square miles are water. 
• There are 30,000 lakes and over 1,300 golf courses.
• Florida has over 1,300 miles of coastline with 800 miles of beaches.
• Florida has a warm climate throughout the year with a rainy/stormy season in the summer.
• Florida's capitol city, Tallahassee, was the only southern capitol east of the Mississippi River to remain in southern hands for the duration of the Civil War.  

Happy Nature Watching!

This was my entry into SkyWatch Friday. Go check out the more fabulous entries. 

Happy Nature Watching!

Photo by Forest and Kim Starr

Last week, we attended the Annual Potato Roundup at Gemini Springs. We first were given a lesson about non-native, invasive plants and specifically the Air Potato Vine.. The Air Potato (Dioscorea bulbifera) is a perennial vine. Bulbs are produced on the vine itself and tubers grow beneath the ground giving this plant two means for surviving and reproducing. A part of the yam family, this vine can grow as much as 8 inches per day reaching heights of 60-150 ft.

Yesterday, we attended an outdoor education class at Longleaf Pine Preserve in DeLand, Florida as part of a homeschool field trip to learn about using animal scat and tracks as tools of identification. Before everyone else arrived, my 8 year old daughter was taking photos to pass the time. Below is one of her photos.  Such a beautiful blue sky!