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| Crown of Thorns Moon. . . or so it appears shot thorough some vines. The April full moon is called the Pink Moon because of the abundance of wild ground phlox which is one of the earliest widespread flowers of spring. |
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| Smooth Phlox with Grasshopper. We have no shortage of Smooth Phlox (Phlox glaberrima) though I have no idea how it is surviving. We haven't had rain in months and the ground is powder dry. |
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| Pink Full Moon cradled in a pine tree |
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| Smooth Phlox with a bumblebee |
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| Pink Full Moon on a drying pond. |
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| The phlox flowers appear to gather some moisture from the air overnight. Perhaps this is how they are surviving the extreme drought conditions. |
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| My favorite full moon shots. . . with a jetliner pasing in front of the moon. Notice the heat coming from the jet engines. Imagine those times tens of thousands of such flights per day. Now reconsider global warming. |
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| Smooth Phlox with an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) |
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| Hot April sunset in Florida. It was a little cooler today but the sun will still fry one's flesh, quickly. |
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| Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly (Phoebis sennae) on Phlox. |
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| A Snowy Owl (Bubo scandicaus) with the Pink Full Moon. These magnificent birds are not so rare in Florida these days but one would have to get out of their house or car to see them. So I kind of claim them for myself. Most days I'm the only person I see outdoors. |
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| Close-up of Snowy Owl (Bubo scandicaus). |
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| Tonight's moon, colorized blue. |