My Journey took me....

To Santee National Wildlife Refuge...

Santee has lots of Spanish Moss on the trees....

This tree always reminds me of an elf tree..

I saw SO Many butterflies (Lepidoptera)...this year has given us such a bounty  of these lovely insects.  So I will try to ID theses ones for the record...  

Monarch Butterfly on Cosmos

Santee Lakes

Gr Egret hiding in the flowers

Southern Pearly Eye

Variegated Fritillary

The Fields are chocked full of butterfly food, Goldenrod!  

Long Tailed Skipper 

Pearl Crescent 

Gulf Fritillary on Bearded Begger-tick Sunflower

AND So many others that I did not photograph...

 soooo many wildflowers...
White Heath Aster

The Field is alive with flower and insect.  

Here is a Savannah Sparrow  perched to hunt insects...lots of grasshopper around.  

The Eastern Phoebe takes advantage of all the flying  insects....

 Yellow Rumped Warblers (Myrtle female) was busy up in the trees...taking gnats mosquitos and anything else that moves

And two Palm Warblers were having a shouting match with a couple of Marsh Wrens, I could not get a shot of the wrens but I did catch the Palm Warbler.  

These Lotus  Plants are huge...the photos does not show the size, this leaf is at least
18 inches across!  It's the size of a WOK. 

And the seed pods are great in dried arrangements! If you want to wade out and pick it..

 a Common Gallinule with a young one....

This tree  nested 3 Gr Blue Heron families this past summer...It's so beautiful in fall color..

Killdeer are hard to spot near the edges...

Saw only a couple of small alligators..

Pied Billed Grebe kept popping up on the surface then diving under again...

Last weekend I did more spruce up on my van, painted all the door handles and the top...it was hard and it did not come out looking like a professional job, but its an improvement of the peeling two-tone look it had going for it,....still need to paint the plastic on the mirrors and that will be my outside spruce up done..

That's about all I have this week....

This post is dedicated to the young buck whose life I was unable to save....I acknowledge your passing with my tears and my wish for peace to replace the pain that held your spirit for that half hour...I hope you know how much I cared for  your living and I celebrate your right to live in peace.   The way you died did not define who you were or what your time on this Earth was about.  I knew you only 30 minutes but I will never forget the gentle being you were, what  you were a part of, and the love for you will live on.  You are forever in my heart. 
10/19/2020

I sincerely believe as long as you are in someone's memory you live on.

PEACE

Every day is a new Adventure.