— The highlight of my family trip to the Everglades and Florida Keys in May had to be the Atlantic bottlenose dolphins chasing our boat in the waters around the Ten Thousand Islands. Gators, crocs and birds certainly are cool, but a pod of Tursiops truncatus jumping through the air and speeding [...]

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— When Getzen Fowler started working maintenance at Poe Springs in 1951 for 23 cents an hour, it was vastly different than today. The park, then privately owned, had a boardwalk, a concession stand, changing houses and diving boards, said 75-year-old Fowler, who has lived in and around the nearby [...]

Dallas, Texas, artist Henry Darnell used my photo of a Florida panther as a model for the Sarasota Chalk Festival in November. The theme of this year’s festival, held every November in downtown Sarasota’s Burns Square, was extinct and endangered species. With a population believed to be between 100 and 200, the Florida panther subspecies (Puma concolor [...]

Whew, I’ve been so consumed by grad skool this semester that it’s sometimes hard to remember to breathe (hence the unfortunately stale homepage of yours truly’s blog). But I did want to take some time to relay something that I’ve been noticing more and more: celebrities who are taking a stand [...]

— Eudes de Crecy says 40-50 percent of the papayas in Hawaii are lost before exportation, either because farmers know they aren’t worth sending off or because they’re thrown out at the packing site from rot or other signs of decay. So the company de Crecy heads as CEO, Gainesville-based [...]