Friday, April 17, 2020

Symbiotic and Not-So Symbiotic Relationships


Many people have headed north, whether because they’d planned to anyway, or because in the middle of a national crisis it feels good to be home.
Our complex may be growing quieter by the day, but nature is still showing her presence.

          

 The air plants are happily clinging to their hosts, asking only for light, air, and an occasional misting.

        







  The ferns often seem to hitch a ride on the palms






        





 And the palms send out their own mysterious events.










 







        There’s been no rain to speak of here for almost two months and our ponds are showing it. 
       Is the lower level of water revealing things previously hidden, or did this resident just arrive?






We've got a gator!   He’s giving the ducks a run for their money and us something to focus on besides the lack of toilet paper.

      


    Then add a touch of the bizarre: Mamie and I came across this whole fish lying on the edge of the parking lot yesterday. All we (My Guy and me; I don’t think Mamie’s thought too deeply about this.) can figure out is that perhaps one of our ospreys lost his grip on his lunch and it slipped down the roof of the garage. 


10 comments:

  1. That new resident would freak me out a little.
    I suspect you are right about the osprey's lunch. I hope it found another.

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  2. It does look dry around there, but that is one scary looking water creature. (shiver) And that is the weirdest thing to find in the parking lot. I think your idea is a good guess as to how you got that fish!

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  3. I think it was an osprey meal that went to the ground. Lovely exotics. OUr neightbors have not come back form Florida and are too worried about having to overnight somewhere if they come here to their home.

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    1. Yes, it's an overnight trip for us, too,which has us a little worried.

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  4. I wondered if that was a turtle. Thanks for the clarification.

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  5. Yes probably a bird dropped a fish...either that or it is a jumping fish! So you have a gator...fun:(

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    1. Not the biggest gator in the world, but everyone here is having fun trying to spot him.

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  6. You're still allowed to cross state lines there? Even with the possible danger of going to or from and infected area?? Not allowed here in Australia, only essential services such as deliveries for supermarkets and those going somewhere for medical treatments and they must all show proof.

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    1. Well, you'll love this, then. Jacksonville, Florida, on the other side of the state, just opened their beaches.

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  7. I remember in Florida we use to say, if you have a pond, eventually you will have a gator. At least he/she is a smallish one. That ones original pond probable dried up. Hope you and my Florida family eventually get some rain. Droughts always scared me because of the fires.

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