The night-blooming Cereus that's blooming right now, tonight!, at #MeadGardens . For one day only only only (well maybe tomorrow too).... With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

Lots of things blooming now at #LeuGardens in #Orlando! Here's a skipper working on some globe amaranth today. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

Simpsons stopper is blooming in #Orlando now! And the pollinators do enjoy it. Really fragrant stuff. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

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I love the week or so in late winter here in #Orlando when the Tabebuia are blooming! Lots of trees around town right now dressed in such bright bold fervent yellow. So gorgeous. These pics are by Casa Feliz in @winterparkfla.bsky.social . With @terpsinoe.bsky.social

Our very happy Carolina jessamine is blooming! It's been pretty consistent for us showing off the yellow flowers in the garden every late winter/early spring for many years now. And the vine sure isn't shy about growing over everything. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

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Herons here love a good car roof. Seen at @ucf.bsky.social today. #ClassicFlorida 🌿

This was a few days ago at big #LakeApopka here in #Orlando, super calm with a mirror for a lake. This gator was lazily swimming on a beautiful day. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

Chillin barred owl at #MeadGardens here in #Orlando! Sees all, knows all, wants a snack. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

FULL TIME: Orlando Pride 1-0 Washington Spirit. THE ORLANDO PRIDE ARE 2024 NWSL CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!!! #ORLvWAS

Really tough week this week. Thankful for the distraction of getting to watch this sweat bee, paying me no mind as it goes about its business on garberia flowers. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social at #WekiwaSprings 🌿

Enki wants to know why the new box of hay hasn't been opened yet.

Was going to swing over to UCF to do this, but I see someone just did today 🤣

Saw a few degrees of tail too, faintly through binocs, even from Orlando! ☄️🔭 #C2023A3

Lake levels are kind of high here in Central FL after #Milton came through last night. Here're a couple of juvenile little-blue herons taking advantage of that. Still have their white feathers! With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

Getting in just under the wire with an Enki photo for International Rabbit Day! @yanfernandez.bsky.social

Very curly forked bluecurl blooming in the yard now! Each flower only lasts like a day and then falls.... But our plant has a bunch of them so it's staggering them, heh. Clever. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

Florida-native goldenrod is blooming here in Orlando, and the bugs are enjoying it! Love the color of this wasp's wings. And you can see its little tongue! With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

Gulf fritillary caterpillars (and their big hairy spikes!) have arrived in our yard here in Orlando! Here's one resting on one of our passionflower vines. It's probably thinking about what part of the vine to eat next. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

I was fortunate enough to spend some time outside of Tucson earlier when the desert was blooming! Managed to catch a bee totally loving life in this Mexican golden poppy. 🌿

Our lychee tree here in Orlando is now showing these tiny flowers. It tries hard in our slightly-too-cold climate but we don't know if the tree will ever actually give us fruit. But there was an ant that REALLY enjoyed the nectar. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

A bee working hard on this False Rosemary! Cool that you can see the tongue on one of the photos too. Seen today at one of the native-plant gardens at Mead Gardens in Winter Park FL. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

The viburnum is blooming here in central FL ! Love these little guys. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

Not from our own garden, but from Leu Gardens here in Orlando. Love that this great purple hairstreak stayed still long enough for a snap :) It was even wiggling its wings! So adorbs. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

Hello @friel.bsky.social - does one need to be on a list to be able to post to the Naturalists feed? Can I be added? Thanks!

A snap not from our garden today but in Leu Gardens in town. Fortunate to get a super cool view of an adorable little sweat bee working hard! With @terpsinoe.bsky.social. Love that you can see the detail in the eyes

Pileated woodpecker visiting our neighborhood! In a far-too-zoomed in cell phone photo :) . This was one of a pair of pileateds actually, both finding lots of yummy bugs in this tree, om nom nom. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social

Love the colorful puffballs that our sweet acacia trees make. Beautiful bits in an amazing thorny tree. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social

IRTF shift tonight (remotely), but that means I get to watch Subaru's beautiful live night-sky Youtube channel while observing (www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MFW...). Oh y'know just another night with a nifty view of Jupiter, Pleiades, and Keck shooting a laser :)

Scenes from a garden : our Florida Paintbrush is blooming now! Look at all the structure in those flowers. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social

Deepest eclipse for us now! About 60% coverage, but enough to do something semi artsy with it :) . With @terpsinoe.bsky.social

Eclipse happening now in Orlando, yay cell-phone-camera astronomy + eclipse glasses. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social

More scenes from the garden: We've got some really nice forked bluecurls doing their thing. Though kinda more like purplecurls.... With @terpsinoe.bsky.social

Continued fun watching the goldenrod in the garden. Caught a pollinator in the act. These buggahs move fast! We think it's a Megachile species. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social

Well here's a nice calm scene from the garden to get things going. Refulgent, Florida-native goldenrod is super happy right now! And the pollinators are excited too. (With @terpsinoe.bsky.social.)