Notice the height of these Okefenokee Hooded Pitcher Plants compared to the alligator. Definitely giants!

©williamwisephoto.com October 28, 2022. Paddling from Suwannee Canal Recreation area, south down the pink canoe trail through Chesser Prairie and Grand Prairie to Monkey Lake and Buzzards Roost Lake.

• Location: pink canoe trail, mile 0-1, N30.72925° W82.17816°
• Partly sunny with a high near 80.
• Sunrise 7:41 AM; Sunset 6:44 PM
• Daylight hours: 11 hours, 2 minutes (-1m 42s)

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©williamwisephoto.com Phinizy Swamp Nature Park, Richmond County, Georgia. October 8, 2022.

• Mostly sunny, with a high near 80.
• Sunrise 7:27 am; Sunset 7:03 pm
• Daylight Hours: 11 hours, 36 minutes (-2m 1s)
• Moon: 98.1% Waxing Gibbous
• Wildlife Photo Blog: Herping at Phinizy Swamp on williamwisephoto.com

Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia. Three-day paddling trip from Suwannee Canal to Round Top to Floyd's Island. March 12, 2022.

• Suwannee Canal (orange canoe trail) between mile markers 6 and 5; N30.76246° W82.22780°
• Morning clouds and rain, afternoon sun and winds; high near 69.
• Sunrise 6:44 am; sunset 6:34 pm
• Day length: 11 hours, 50 minutes (+1m 54s)

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Photographed in the Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia. http://williamwisephoto.com/photographyblog/southern-blue-flag-iris-virginica-okefenokee-swamp

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More flowers from the Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina in May 2021.
Bearcorn, American cancer-root - Conopholis americana
There was a big patch of this parasitic plan--very impressive. Look closely and you can see that some of the flowers appear to be in "full bloom", that is, they have stamens visible. Wow. A small insect is present on one flower, perhaps a fly. I see a few references to possible pollination by bees.

Rough Green Snake - Opheodrys aestivus
Working its way through the leaf litter along the trail on a pleasant spring day. It allowed close approach, so I could get decent photos with a cell phone. A mite (Trombidiidae?) is visible in one frame, right at the edge.
Location: Eno River State Park, Durham County NC (USA)

crazy ants some how managed to find leftover foods in my bag and started to trail all the way from out side the room. I intentionally gave them diluted honey right outside the doorsteps to lure them ountside and prevent them from coming inside. this was the result

This individual surprised us after emerging from the pupa of an overwintering Callosamia promethea which we hand-reared. The larva must have been inside the caterpillar during the first or second instar as we found it soon after that and raised it inside. It grew and pupated with seemingly no problems.

"Stumpy" the porch anole, with tail completely regrown in 2mo. When he ran across the porch, the tail was held stiffly with an arch up to the tip.

Previous observations
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/95317299
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/93358136
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/90417235

Great article on tail regeneration at
https://news.arizona.edu/story/researchers-find-regenerated-lizard-tails-are-different-from-originals

We were on a bird walk. A small bird, possible a scaly-breasted cupwing was singing from withing some thorny shrubbery. Just above this was a rock that was mostly hidden behind even more shrubbery. About 6 -8 metres away. (maybe closer)

We spotted something that looked like the large eyes of an owl staring back. Turned out to be the leopard cat which was sitting quietly - possible sunning itself, or maybe just waiting for some prey.

For a while it was very still, it kept looking back at us - maybe thinking that we could not see through the shrubs.

However, I suppose our intent staring and picture taking warned it off - it just vanished in the blink of an eye

(Import , edit and export tool messed up the dates on the pictures, so had to edit and correct in the observations)