Month: August 2017

25 years ago a #hurricane came barreling into my hometown at 168 miles an hour. It came out of nowhere… 48 hours earlier, the #Category 5 monster hadn’t yet been classified as a hurricane. They gave it a name. And

Florida is,,, the #SunshineState Xavier Cortada, “Brother Sun,” digital art, 2015. Celebrating Pope Francis’ upcoming environmental encyclical: Cortada created “Brother Sun,” a digital art piece to celebrate Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical titled ‘Laudato Sii’ and St. Francis’ Canticle of Brother

Florida is… #Sunshine #Sunlovers: Today, August 21st, 2017, is a nice reminder for us not #eclipse the power of the #sun. Let’s all use #Solar #power to generate #CleanEnergy!

Learn more about lizards at https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/herpetology/florida-amphibians-reptiles/lizards/

Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) was chosen for the Release to Tide series Cortada created for CLEER (see http://cortada.com/2015/WaterSCCF) because its natural charisma. The local dolphin population in Florida’s Sanibel / Captiva area stays in the bay and near-shore waters year-round.

Florida is… Gasteracantha cancriformis #floridaisnature #spider. Gasteracantha cancriformis is a species of orb-weaver spider (family Araneidae). It is widely distributed in the New World. The genus name Gasteracantha derives from the Greek words γαστήρ (gaster, “belly”) and ἄκανθα (acantha, “thorn”),

Colorful yet frutty with a taste key lime pie, friendly, busy, fishy ? , can get a bit ?, sun kissed nose, sporty. Good place to retire.!

Florida is starfish