Posts for: ladellpatterson
Sep 3, 2019 13:43:11 #
Aug 25, 2019 13:03:04 #
Aug 25, 2019 08:17:46 #
These little lizards are in great abundance here in Okeechobee and all over this area. They have this strange antic that is used to attract others of their type and I think they use this method for attracting insects to lure them in closer so they can get a easy catch for dinner. I love watching them.
May 27, 2019 16:34:24 #
I noticed the blooming flowers of my daughter-in-law in Okeechobee today. The heat index is 100 degrees fahrenheit and it's the end of May. Among them was a new flower, the giant Iris. What a surprize. I guess it takes the heat to bring out the beauty in some things
Jul 20, 2017 07:02:54 #
Eight or nine years ago Stumpy came to the Bait shop looking for food. There was something unusual about him. He had a foot missing and walked with a stump at the end of his leg. No one knows just what happened but it's easy to guess. Close by the bait store is a canal that runs close by Lake Okeechobee that is infested with alligators and snakes. Let you imagine run a little and you will come up with probably what happened. I was introduced to Stumpy yesterday. I fed him a fresh minnow from the well and he was a happy Cow Bird. Down here we call them cow birds. They are really Egrets, or Cattle Egrets. The shop is Garrard's Bait and Tackle Shop at 4375 US 441 S in Okeechobee Florida.
Jul 18, 2017 09:42:08 #
Being a photographer help open my eyes to the strangeness of nature and it's unexplainable Beauty. If you look and open your eyes you will see beauty where before you only saw a bleak landscape and atmosphere.
Jul 17, 2017 19:57:01 #
Whether the Cypress Knees are there to provide oxygen or anchor the roots of the tree in the soft mud of the swamps it is still a phenomenal sight in the South Florida Swamps. It is said that if the knees are cut down it does nothing to the tree and the knees continue to grow. I love sitting on the edge of the swamp to take it all in.
Jul 17, 2017 19:12:25 #
I have become enamored with the wild flowers that bloom in abundance all over the world where I have traveled. I now reside in Okeechobee Florida, by the large lake seen in the middle of the Florida peninsula. There are species of wild vegetation unfamiliar to me so I have been shooting some of them. Most folds just pass on by them never noticing their intricate beauty. This Swamp Rosemallow grows all around the lake and I just couldn't pass it up.
