Helianthus debilis
Storm Over Ais Territory
Atlantic Ocean
April Showers
Atlantic Storm Clouds
Neon Sea Grape Venation
Coccoloba uvifera
Coccoloba uvifera
Coccoloba uvifera
For a sea grape jelly recipe and more, click here.
Snake Plants Occupy Coquina Beach
Sansevieria trifasciata
Sabal Roots on Rattlesnake Island
Sabal palmetto
Don’t they look like something out of a Dr. Seuss book?
Reclamation
Taraxacum officinale
Kalanchoe daigremontiana
Portulaca oleracea
Succulents and dandelions reclaim sandy soil from a tired, cracking tennis court. In the words of author Richard Powers, “There’s always as much belowground as above.”
Flamboyant Tree
Delonix regia
Antigua locals call this tree “chuk chuk” due to the sound the seed pod makes when used as a rhythmic musical instrument.
Buttonbush
Cephalanthus occidentalis
Click here for buttonbush photos taken over 1,700 miles away from the one featured above.
West Indian Fuzzy Chiton
Acanthopleura granulata
The West Indian fuzzy chiton attaches itself to limestone cliffs throughout the Caribbean while munching on algae.
Limestone Cliff in Dickenson Bay
Revisiting the House Without Us
Six years after visiting North Carolina’s Outer Banks for the first time, I returned this summer. Kudzu continues to slowly swallow this house on Highway 64 in Jamesville. View photos from that initial road trip here.
Futility
A futile dune and sea oat array in Flagler County now protect residents and wayward tourists along a stretch of A1A from the Atlantic Ocean.
Coquinas, Donax variabilis
Hello Falco
The fastest animal on earth perched beside a warm stucco wall soaked with a day’s sunlight grooms himself seven floors above A1A. Barred feathers float slowly.
Clouds Over Cuba
4’33” Under the Pier
Frigid Fort Clinch
Hike Around the North End
Arboreal Boneyard
Mindful of the Tide
Exquisite Asymmetry
Pedagogy of the Plants 
