Due to a catastrophic computer fail, and my increasing lack of effort and enthusiasm… I’ve abandoned the attempt to complete my first 365Project. I gave it the ol’ college try, but sadly, I just couldn’t sustain it.
Now, that I’ve dispense with that bit of distasteful housekeeping, on to my weekly photo hike. I will never give these up, they keep me sane…
Last time I tried to visit Saturday’s venue, I forgot my hiking shoes… I came better prepared this time, and even brought water and a change of clothes.
As I hoped, the pitcher plants at Tarklin Bayou Preserve were in bloom. This state preserve is one of the only locations, in all my hikes, that I’ve seen them. The fields were full of the carnivorous beauties, and I hope they were overflowing with pesky mosquitoes.
I also jogged (read: drove) down the road a short distance and stopped in at Big Lagoon State Park.
Both parks are close to Naval Air Station, Pensacola.
(Photos shot with a Nikon D60, using an 18-55mm, 55-200mm, 20mm f/2.8 wide-angle, 50mm f/1.8 prime lens, Nikon CoolPix S205 and/or iPhone4)
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can you look inside the pitcher plants? It amazes me that some plants live on eating animals. I guess the plant world wants to get even a little bit.
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The field was very marshy and wet, and my shoes weren’t water proof so I couldn’t get that close to the plants. I can imagine though, that they had little bug carcasses dissolving at the bottom of their pitchers.
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Sorry for computer problems….
your shots are great – like always!
Have a good week ahead!
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Sorry for the computer fail! Love these photos, though — especially the last one. The coast is my favorite place to be in the world!
Happy Sunday!
🙂
Traci
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Great pics! I should go on a weekly photo hike… unfortunately the boys often decide otherwise… hence my pics of fire trucks this week 🙂
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Those docks really make me long to walk down them.
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I love Pensacola. The boardwalk is particularly appealing.
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Love the wooden walkway near the water’s edge – – – but was it mosquitoey there? Or no-see-emmy?
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That was the wonderful part of this hike, there were neither ‘skeeters nor no-see-emms. I was not nibbled on once while out hiking. The pitcher plants must have been feasting.
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The pitcher plants are extraordinary!
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Every time you post a picture of the Gulf, my husband cringes, because he knows it means a four hour car ride to the beach in the next three months. He hates the beach. I die every day I don’t live by it.
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beautiful pictures
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