Pine Island's Flowering Trees in June

The fragipani stands bare all winter and then, when it warms and the days a longer, these magnificent flowers come out.

Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota

This is a beautiful place. The specialities are orchids and bromeliads in the conservatory. Outdoors along the winding paths are huge trees providing places for singing birds to land. There are mangroves and butterfly gardens lush vines and such diverse, beautiful foliage. The breeze comes in from the Sarasota Bay.....paradise?

Earth and Spirit, Pine Island

PINE ISLAND CLAM HOUSE

SIX MILE CYPRESS SLOUGH

The light has changed; the air seems cleaner. Hummingbirds are busy, busy. So are the songbirds and all those that will winter over here.
If you were a painter, this is a good time to paint...outdoors.
The clouds pass overhead, changing shapes, changing consistencies, rapidly.
The goldfish dash to the water's surface for food.
The squirrels and chipmunks are scurrying, collecting, storing.
It is a beautiful time of the year, here in the Northeast.