Lonesome Kentucky Pumpkin
(Cucurbita spp.)
All the pretty pumpkins were picked and piled by the highway where they pose for passersby to purchase. The most homely are lonely and left behind to wait for first frost to come to these Ohio River bottomlands. Download a large version(800x600) of this placid pumpkin picture for your desktop!
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Pumpkin Wagon
Here's another souvenir picture from my trip back home to Kentucky a couple of weeks ago. While the homely pumpkins were left behind in the field, here's what became of the pretty pumpkins. They were picked and piled in the wagon and parked beneath a sugar maple looking beautiful and awaiting selection to serve as jack-o-lantern or pie (preferred). Download a large version(800x600) this colorful fall scene!
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Southern Magnolia Seed Cone
In October the fruit of the southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) pops to reveal the bright reds seeds within. But you don't necessarily need to live in the south to enjoy the spectacle courtesy of several cold adapted varities like this one in Cincinnati, Ohio (which is in frosty Zone 5!)
Download a large version(800x600) and enjoy this colorful magnolia seed scene on your desktop!
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Scrambling Sky Flower Vine
These golden throated blue trumpets (Thunbergia_battiscombe)will brighten your computer desktop. They always cheer me up when I see them in the garden and they will make you happy too so download a large version (800x600)of these stunning scramblers.
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Dutchman's Pipe
These silly looking things began blooming in early September. It is the flower of one of the pipe vines(Aristolochia elegans), so called because many of the flowers of this genus are shaped like Sherlock Holme's bent stem pipe. Download a large version(800x600) of this funny flower for your desktop!
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Altered Acorn
I was preparing the photos for a new Profile we're doing of the swamp hickory oak (Quercus michauxii) and took a liking to this acorn picture. After a couple of digital assaults, I believe I have transformed it into the perfect first-day-o-fall image for my computer desktop. Download a large version(800x600) of my altered acorn and add an autumn ambience to your computer desktop! If you prefer, download the unaltered, normal acorn.
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Angel's Trumpet In Mid Zoom
Steve gave me some seedlings from his angel's trumpet plant (Datura inoxia var. quinquecuspida) when I visited his place late last June. I coaxed them along through the heat of the summer and was rewarded last Friday night when the first trumpets sounded forth. I snapped its picture and played with it in Photoshop late into the night until I came up with this. I was tired so I declared it to be art and went off to bed. Download a large version(800x600) of this freaky and strange image of this freaky and strange (but beautiful) plant to exhibit on your computer desktop.
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Moonflower
I reckon the moonflower vines (Ipomoea alba) should be blooming by now here in North Florida but I've been too busy doing overtime on my day job to check on them. This picture is from last year, but since it was one of the most popular flower pictures (in number of downloads) on the website we'll show him again. Download the large version(800x600) and hang a full moonflower on your computer desktop.
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Cove Lake, Tennessee
I overnighted in Caryville, Tennesee nestled in the Cumberland Mountains and awoke to this magnificent scene. Amazingly, I shot this picture from a motel balcony just off Interstate 75. Everyone's favorite stretch of I-75 roars up the mountainside just out of view behind the hill at right. It ridge-runs rowdily above the verdant valleys for more than 30 scenic miles before descending at Jellico, TN on the Kentucky state border. Download a large version(800x600) of this peaceful early autumn scene for your desktop!
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Jack's Duck Boys
These two mallards are the last of two dozen ducklings that I raised several years ago. Some were eaten by varmints, and some joined flocks of wild ducks and flew off. Although they make the summertime duck circuit to points north in the summer, these guys have reliably returned to Floridune for the past several years. This handsome pair is collectively known as the Duck Boys and they excel at mooching/stealing cracked corn from the neighbors. They are seen here relaxing among the bald cypress, tupelo and yaupon holly of a flooded sinkhole called the Cypress Pond. Update 12/10/02: unfortunately Duck Boy #1 disappeared in February 2002 leaving his buddy visibly lonely and depressed until May 2002 when #2 also went missing. Both are believed to have been eaten by a hungry hawk family that moved in that spring. RIP Duck Boys.
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