Category: Reflections

Return to the Everglades 2025 – PART THREE

Third Trip to the Everglades – February 2025 The Everglades sits on top of a porous limestone basin that allows much of the water to be retained within the aquifer.  As plants slowly decay, they release weak acids that attack the rock to carve out these “solution holes”.   Groundwater will fill the pockets creating…


El Dorado Lake Reflections

In the fall of 2014 I went on a trip to the Flint Hills area of Kansas.  There I met a very good friend and got to see some really amazing places in Kansas.  I stayed at the El Dorado State Park Campground and spent a little time photographing this lake.  On this particular morning,…


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