Pursue this essay for the sake of curiosity.  I write it in part because I am in south Florida, and in part because of the resources now available on the World Wide Web.  Mostly I write it to express wonder about the creation.  Nature really is an antidote to boredom, but only if one chooses to look a bit more closely and always questions the conventional wisdom.  Of this world we know but a little, and much of what we know is wrong.  Still, it is all there in front of us.  We may not have the genius of Darwin, but we can still have insights into the mechanics

The green 'lawn' 2 1/2 weeks after a prescibed burn at the Kirby-Shorter Boardwalk in the Everglades

Florida Brown Watersnake