Florida Backyard Sketchbook

 Sea lavender, Argusia gnaphalodes , is taking over my backyard. Its spread from a miserable, near leafless stick into a 15 x15-foot clump i...

 Driving out of my island retreat in late February I saw my first swallow-tailed kite of the season, pretty much right on schedule. They may...

 Even though I lived on Fort Myers Beach early in my life, I've never been particularly interested in shells. That got me in trouble in ...

 Months after Hurricane Ian's storm surge covered it with a couple of feet of brackish/salt water, slimy gray silt, and no doubt sewage ...

 Almost ten years ago I got very interested in the weedy spurges popping up all over the yard. I had let the mulch groundcover evaporate und...

  Piscidia piscupula , the Florida fish poison tree, Jamaica dogwood, or fishfuddle tree, is a tropical hardwood native to south Florida and...

 Or is it the other way around? One evening in mid-March my husband remarked that there was something resembling,"a mocking bird on ste...