That Georgia Biologist

Welcome back to my Florida series! Last week I started sharing about my Bok Tower Gardens experience, and especially of the flowers near the entrance. In this post, I want to share pics of the path to the tower and the tower itself. It was so pretty, and the songs the bells in the tower played were even prettier! I posed for tons of photos and took a few too. It was so much fun spending time with my grandparents and great-aunt and great-uncle! I gotta say though...the top photo is my favorite. Just a simply beautiful and sublime scene :) The tower itself is quite impressive, and I like the views from the base of the tower, too. In the general area is the highest point of Florida (albeit a couple hundred feet!). We also saw a really cool woodpecker. I really liked how (above) these trees framed the picture, with the people at left adding some interest. " “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." - Mat...

Hi everyone! Welcome back to my series on my trip to Florida. One of my favorite places that my grandparents took me to was Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales. It is a beautiful botanical garden with an amazing tower at the center, that has bells in it and plays the most beautiful concerts throughout the day!! I had so much fun hanging out and taking pictures with my grandparents, and my great-aunt and great-uncle, and I am excited to share some of my photos from that day. Here you go!  En route.  A lot of these flowers were just at the entrance to the gardens, or right after you entered. So much pretty so quick, there is a lot of beautiful if you just take time to smell the roses and slow down! Well, I have many more pictures but I think I'll make Bok Tower a continued series. So until next week... To be continued...

I have really enjoyed having my Michigan state parks pass this year thus far. The closest state park is still half hour away, which definitely racks up the miles. But if I keep my visiting to say once a month or so, and I go with friends, well that makes the extra 32 miles worth it :) Last month I took another of my friends to watch a Warren Dunes sunset, and I knew that my vespers/church group of friends would also really enjoy the experience. So I happily convinced them to come with me tonight :) It was quite chilly (the high today was 32 degrees), and certainly a) by the coast and b) at sunset it was definitely cooler. But we had a beautiful sunset, I got some pretty decent shots, and most of all I just really enjoyed spending quality time with my friends :) Such a great way to close a spectacular Sabbath!!! It was also quite fun to photograph the seemingly endless numbers of gulls who were at the beach. Great sunset, great time, with great friends...but when we got back in ...

Welcome back to my Florida series! One of my favorite places that my grandparents took me on my time in the Sunshine State was right in their own home town of Vero Beach. It is the McKee Botanical Gardens. As someone who wants to pursue biology as a career, and especially botany, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience a) as a grandson, b) as a creative, and c) as a biologist! Following are some of my pictures. There are lots of jungle trails, very nicely landscaped and with many flowers, ponds, and bridges throughout. As a temporary exhibit, there are a bunch of jungle animal statues positioned throughout the place! They were fun to spy and totally blended in! The flowers were soooo pretty!! I really enjoyed the pursuit of photographing them, and striving to capture the best picture possible. I especially liked the photo below, of the path and the tall palm trees. Really liked the focus on lines in this composition.  Well...