Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, Charleston, SC
November 16, 2025
Red and Orange Leaves Dangling In Spanish Moss
Tag Archives: Orange
Dragonflies on Fall Display
The late afternoon sun was highlighting an artful pile of pumpkins and gourds at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens. A number of dragonflies were pleased to use the veggies as perches.
Magnolia Plantation & Gardens, Charleston, SC
October 12, 2024
Canna Lily Lunch
Two large grasshoppers were methodically munching on a Canna Lily. It was too hot to stay and watch them but I suspect that they didn’t stop until the bloom was gone.
Magnolia Plantation & Gardens, Charleston, SC
August 11, 2024
Gulf Fritillary Butterfly On Lantana
A tattered Gulf Fritillary found the last tattered bloom on a Lantana. This was just a few days after Tropical Storm Debby drenched the South Carolina low-country with 15 to 20 inches ( up to 0.5 meters) of rain. Any plant with delicate blooms took a beating.
Magnolia Plantation & Gardens, Charleston, SC
August 11, 2024
Sunrise at Bear Island, Wider Views
A couple more pre-sunrise images of a marsh at Bear Island. I could tell the color wasn’t going to be much so worked on getting the dewy grass in the foreground. While avoiding a giant ant hill.
The water was like glass, but there wasn’t much to reflect in it.
Bear Island Wildlife Management Area, SC
October 21, 2023
Sunrise at Bear Island
It was a cloudless morning so the sunrise wasn’t spectacular. Other than that the not to be taken for granted fact that sun rose another day. There was a nice orange glow for a few minutes.
An Alligator was out moving around early.
A Great Blue Heron announced his presence.
The same GBH passed a pair of Tricolored Herons going the other way.
Just before the sun topped the tree line the orange intensified.
Bear Island Wildlife Management Area, SC
October 21, 2023
Gulf Fritillary Butterfly
A Gulf Fritillary feeding on statice at the edge of a marsh.
Donnelley Wildlife Management Area, SC
September 2, 2023
Orange Beacon
A damp, shaded path on a nature trail was brightened by a strikingly colored fungus.
The big piece was easily seen in the distance when I rounded a corner.
I was delighted to find it was natural, not a human discard.
Monarch on Statice
I saw this one Monarch Butterfly flitting around wild statice.
Grassland-Woodland Trail
Audubon Center at Beidler Forest, Harleyville, SC
May 29, 2023
Monarchs, Wildflowers
A few Monarchs were interspersed with the Gulf Fritillaries on the Wildflowers.
The Monarchs were more skittish and didn’t stay out in the open for long.
Botany Bay Wildlife Management Area, SC
October 14, 2022