Spring Scenes in Florida - Photos

North-central Florida home

Live oaks, dogwoods, and azaleas

Everglades

Extremely endangered Florida panther

Hugely magnified: the local no-seem-ums and mosquitoes

around Gainesville are quite unique

Everglades

The Devil's Millhopper, Gainesville

Sebastian Inlet, Vero Beach

Boardwalk through the floodplain of Lake Bradford with

lots of cypress, Tallahassee Museum

Chatham Bend and Watson Photos

Edgar Anselm Watson

(He was known for having "crazy Watson eyes," which

showed the sclera under the iris.)

His house at Chatham Bend was the only place in Ten Thousand Islands that

had a coat of paint on it.  (It burned down in the 1940s)

Alligators were well-known visitors to the area

Later photo of Edgar J. Watson

The shore at the Smallwood Store on Chokoloskee - 

where Watson died in a hail of bullets

The endangered Florida panther is still found in the area

Ted Smallwood at this Smallwood Store door on Chokoloskee

(If you'd care to read a good, quick version about Edgar Watson, I suggest reading "The Legend of Chokoloskee" in The Oxford American magazine at:  https://www.oxfordamerican.org/item/695-the-legend-of-chokoloskee  )

Florida State Park Views

Cape Florida State Park

Devil's Millhopper Geological State Park

Gold Head Branch State Park

St. Lucie Inlet Preserve State Park

Florida Caverns State Park

Lake Griffin State Park

Manatee Springs State Park