Owens Photography
Everglades National Park
The vast “river of grass” encompassing the southern tip of Florida from its east to the west coasts is unique in all the world. Mile after mile of saw grass with shallow water flowing under it, covered by an unending sky – the monotony of horizontal greens and tans occasionally broken by a hardwood hammock or birds in flight, creates a magical circle of life. The ying and yang of the wet and dry seasons, the interconnectedness of all the creatures, some full-time residents and others just vacationing, is glorious in an understated and quite way.
"Fat and Sassy"
Alligator Sunning Along Shark Valley Route
"A Shock of Color"
Wildflower Adds Some Color to the 'Glades
"In Flight"
Assorted Shore Birds Take Flight in the Ten Thousand Islands Area
"Fishing Amongst the Lily Pads"
Great Egret Looking for Dinner
"The Smallest Camper"
Everglades Tree Snail
"Tarpon Feeding Frenzy"
Off the Ten Thousand Islands Section of the Everglades
"Waiting" OR "Smiling"
Alligator Sunning in Shark Valley
"Caught Something"
Green Heron Feeding
"Flight Congestion"
A Multitude of Birds Take Flight in Shark Valley
"Success!"
Little Blue Heron Successfully Shrimping
"Sun Bathing Beauties"
Alligators Unusually Social
"There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth, remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them; their vast glittering openness, wider than the enormous visible round of the horizon, the racing free saltness and sweetness of their massive winds, under the dazzling blue heights of space. They are unique also in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life they enclose. The miracle of the light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slow-moving below, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades of Florida. It is a river of grass." Marjory Stoneman Douglas, The Everglades: River of Grass, 1947
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