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The light of a new world shines on this young Earthling with an ancient soul. American AlligatorOctober 16, 2026Alachua ...
10/16/2026

The light of a new world shines on this young Earthling with an ancient soul.

American Alligator
October 16, 2026
Alachua County, Florida

I was talking to another photographer about the butterflies on the alligator flag, and mentioned not seeing hummingbird ...
10/16/2026

I was talking to another photographer about the butterflies on the alligator flag, and mentioned not seeing hummingbird moths in a long time. And then they were there. I took this shot at 1/4000 of a second and the wings are still blurred. Their wings beat around 80 times per second, and the wingtips at the fastest point of the arc move at 21mph.

Hummingbird moth on Alligator Flag
October 16th, 2026
Alachua County, Florida

The most incredible things in the universe happen 20 minutes from your door step, in the skies overhead, in the blue dep...
10/15/2026

The most incredible things in the universe happen 20 minutes from your door step, in the skies overhead, in the blue depths of the oceans. The rules are different here. Matter behaves in ways that are strange and unexpected. Ancient, primordial iron, long removed from its birthplace in the core of a red supergiant, hears the language of Earth. This language has the power to convince chemistry and physics to yield to biology and iron begins doing things it has never done and may never do again. Our lives are encompassed by such things. We are such things. Biology is the cosmic afterlife for stars, and Earth is our heaven and Eden. On this pale blue dot, collections of ancient elements get to breathe and experience the cosmos.

Iron atoms are some of the most stable in the universe. The lifetime of an iron atom is 725 octillion times longer than the currently understood age of the universe. For most of their time in existence, they will simply sit in the cold and dark, forever. Their time spent in the bloodstreams, lungs, and hearts of life on Earth is absurdly brief. For nearly all of its existence, the universe also will be cold and dark. We are at the beginning of everything that will ever be, an infinite realm of potential and possibility ahead of us.

Caspian Tern
October 14th, 2026
Alachua County, Florida

A gulf fritillary stops for a meal on some Spanish Needle wildflowers. I didn't notice the incoming beetle until days la...
10/11/2026

A gulf fritillary stops for a meal on some Spanish Needle wildflowers. I didn't notice the incoming beetle until days later as I sorted through my captures of that morning.

Beetles make up 25% of all animal species on Earth. Sit with that fact for a second. Not insects in total, just beetles. There are at present about 350,000 species currently known with an estimated total number of beetle species between 900,000 and 2.1 million. In the years ahead, many of those species will disappear from the universe forever, with humans never discovering them, never meeting them, never getting a chance to stand in reverence to so many little pieces of the cornerstone of much of life on Earth.

The first beetles appeared on Earth about 295 million years ago, the first humans 250 thousand years ago. We were born out of a world of their making. This moves me.

I recently got into an exchange on Facebook with someone who sees no issue with the FWC commissioners all being developers or real estate friendly, and not a single science degree amongst them. The person claimed there was no evidence of them violating their fiduciary duty. Why would these people even want to be commissioners for the FWC? Why do we accept this in Florida when it's an obvious conflict of interest?

The FWC's mission statement - Managing fish and wildlife resources for their long-term well-being and the benefit of people.

Isn't it entirely reasonable to expect people tasked with this to be moved, emotionally, by the vibrancy and beauty of life on Earth, and to draw their worldview from the objective reality of nature? How can one be tasked with protecting life if their identity is distilled from the green colors in their stock portfolio vs the ancient web of life that carries our living planet through the cosmos?

Gulf Fritillary with incoming May Beetle (also known as a Common Cockchafer)
September 9th, 2026
Alachua County, Florida

“and it is here that we are, in some pain and with no guarantees, working out our destiny.”― Carl Sagan, CosmosSnowy Egr...
10/09/2026

“and it is here that we are, in some pain and with no guarantees, working out our destiny.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Snowy Egret
September 16th, 2026
Alachua County, Florida

The wild beauty of Florida changed my relationship with Earth. It was while living in Florida that I first shed tears ov...
10/07/2026

The wild beauty of Florida changed my relationship with Earth. It was while living in Florida that I first shed tears over the death of a tree and over the visible harm to an ecosystem. It was where I realized that nearly my entire identity is built upon being an Earthling and a citizen of the cosmos and as a consequence, I would be in conflict with much of contemporary human society and what it values.

Sunrise over Lake Orange
Marion County, Florida
September 19th, 2026

“It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.”― Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and A...
10/05/2026

“It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.”
― Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

Doing this requires a lot of time spent in self reflection. It requires doubt and skepticism, and humility. Understanding anything about life on this world means we start at the beginning of everything, the birth of the universe. To understand what a Limpkin is, or how rare and special and precious it is, we must first understand the cosmos, the rarity of Earthlike worlds, and the distribution of stars and elements in the cosmos. If we approach this endeavor authentically, we might start to understand how precious life is and the tragedy of talking about wildlife as if it's a commodity to manage like coal. If our laws protect capital and profits above the living and breathing inhabitants of our world, we haven't quite gotten the point of what it means to be an Earthling and I would regard this as a spiritual failure. It follows with near certainty that someone engaged in this belief has no idea what it means to be human, either. If our identities were stripped bare of the capitalist, imperialist slop that pervades nearly all of modern society, who would be able to make sense of what was left? Greed lies to us about the nature of our world and our place on it, it lies to us about the rights animals have to the land they have occupied for millennia or longer. Greed tells us that we can own a piece of a living world. The universe laughs at this, knowing we can't own anything on Earth the same way we can't own a piece of the sun or a moon of a gas giant. They aren't ours and never will be. Our place here is one of incredible fortune and circumstance. Any counter narrative based on possession, power, greed or ownership quickly falls flat.

Limpkin
Alachua County, Florida
August 24th, 2026

“Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep inter...
10/03/2026

“Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

For a brief moment as the suns rays come directly at us, a deeper reality emerges, as nuclear fusion reaches across the void, cradling two children of the stars. The power of the sun is captivating, terrifying, and comforting at all the same time. Something to think about - if the space between us and the sun were filled with air, even at 93 million miles away the sun would roar at 125 decibels for 10 billion plus years. Our home star would be as loud as a rock concert, nonstop, celebrating the conversion of 4 million tons of matter into energy every second, illuminating and warming our small world and putting a distant point of light in countless alien skies. Other citizens of the cosmos out there may be navigating alien seas and finding their way home with the help of our little yellow star, our tragedies and triumphs unknown to them as they make their own voyages of discovery.

White Ibis
Levy County, Florida
September 28th, 2026

“There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.”― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candl...
09/29/2026

“There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

A tiny, gentle soul breeches the surface of the spring run. When nobody is swimming, the turtles and fish are everywhere. I think about that a lot, an immediate measure of our impact on this sacred place. Seeing all their little faces above the water I decided to let them have the water to themselves. This, too is a form of conservation. I'm a visitor here, this place is his home. I was quite content to observe the miracle of life, both the turtle and liquid water flowing freely on the surface of a small, rocky world, in reverence on the sidelines. Safe travels little friend.

Peninsula Cooter?
September 28th, 2026
Levy County, Florida

It happens slowly compared to a human lifetime. It's overnight on a geological scale. The world is becoming less habitab...
09/25/2026

It happens slowly compared to a human lifetime. It's overnight on a geological scale. The world is becoming less habitable, less alive. Less healthy. Bird and insect populations have plummeted over the past 50 years. I remember as a kid seeing fields and fields of fireflies in Pennsylvania, they were everywhere. We assumed they always would be. The ancient trees seemed to be permanent features of the landscape, even occasionally referenced on survey maps from centuries past. And then the bulldozers come and our ideas of permanence were violently uprooted. The living mementos of our childhoods are disappearing along with their precious and nurturing influence on our young ideas of what it meant to be human. The old farmhouses that sheltered generations of humans with hand placed stones yield to data centers and subdivisions. The nurturing chorus of the wetlands silenced by strip malls and car washes. In a world of 24/7 news and a different crisis every day, the changes are less noticeable because we don't have time to let them sit in our soul. Modernity closes in, the old open road of an endless and untamed horizon now curtailed by an ominous, lifeless artificial skyline. In the decades ahead, may we do what we can to remember the Earth of our childhoods, with its more numerous vibrant fields of gold, open skies and fireflies and birdsongs. I hope we decide to welcome her back one day, especially the fireflies. It can start with something as simple as letting a section of a yard grow wild.

Please spend time in nature. Watch how a bird masterfully commands the physics of flight, how a grasshopper has little peach fuzz hairs, and watch some sunrises feeling how the warmth of a distant sun motivates and moves a living world. You might find that you are moved, too.

White Ibis
Alachua County, Florida
September 23rd, 2026

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