Goodbye July 2026 – “It’s already a three-shirt morning.”
Some days the conditions are just right — hot and humid, heavy low clouds, the wind gone still. On mornings like this you can feel the quiet and almost touch the moisture in the air. It feels like stepping back in time.
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Anhinga
Juvenile Ibis
I love the colors of the juveniles
Ibises
Those are all Ibis except the one in the lower right, hunched is a Turkey
Ibises
two Ibis feeding
Ibises, a congregation
Yellow Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia)
Black and yellow garden spider (Argiope aurantia)
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Golden Silk Orb-weaver
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga)
Anhinga (left) & Little Blue
“By eight o’clock in the morning, the heat was already a living thing, pressing down on the porch like a heavy dog.“
Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman