Afternoon Light, Easter 2009

My favorite time to take pictures is in the late afternoon. Actually, that's my favorite time of day, period. I love how the light slants through the trees and makes shifting, dappled patterns all around as the sun goes down. It's a magical time.

The photo above captures some of the afternoon magic at our neighborhood spring, looking from the woods out toward the river. If you look closely, you can see more cypress knees.

If We're in Florida, There Must Be a Football Somewhere

Folks in the spring today were having the kind of fun we like to have here in the home of Gator Nation—football!

Note the ramp in the background is partially underwater. The spikey-looking objects in the foreground are cypress knees, which are thought to provide stabilization for the cypress trees that are so common here in swampy areas.