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Found a particularly enterprising spade-leafed sundew today that seems to specialize in catching and absorbing blue damselfiles. Thing was covered with them.

Freed this one, which was still alive, and washed the goo off his wings. He lived to make the exact same mistake later that day.

Try walking into a giant mass of sticky, ravenous poison ivy that slowly dissolves your body.

(Yes, I freed him.)

Color study.

Red Milkweed. Now very rare in the Pine Barrens. I know of only two plants.

Rose Pogonias

Swamp Candle

I had to stand in my kayak to get this photo. Very tricky. Do not try this in your bog: you will drown. At least if I drown, we don't lose a productive member of society--but some of you are librarians, so do be careful!

Magnificent scent, the native magnolias.

A colony of threadleafed sundews slowly sinking a floating cedar log.

Swamp azalea.

I'll be out here if anyone's looking for me. Will swing by here to post pictures from my rambles.

Found this youngster sunning itself on a log. Cute little fellow, but Northern Water Snakes have an anti-coagulant in their saliva and are quite ill-tempered, so I don't handle them if I can help it.

Came across these gems after ripping up a beaver dam that was flooding an orchid bog. The gods were pleased. Had them last night, and they were delicious. ( Read more... )