by Rich Leighton | Jul 25, 2016
Sometimes while searching among the most remote wild places across North America hunting down rare native orchids and other flora and fauna, I often find patches of amazing animal-eating carnivorous plants! This is exactly how I stumbled into these hooded pitcher...
by Rich Leighton | Jul 17, 2016
When I was a kid growing up in Bradenton, Florida – the most difficult of all the local lizards was the “blue-tailed” skink. We chased them all over the place for years, sometimes catching one, but usually being put to shame by a small reptile. Years...
by Rich Leighton | Jul 13, 2016
Quick post today to share with you one of my favorite terrestrial orchids of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts – the southern white fringed orchid! Often difficult to photograph in Florida’s bright summer sunlight, heavy overcast skies were a huge in helping...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 9, 2016
Recently I was checking out some places in Central Oregon the Bend area and while having a chat with some random fellow hikers who in a truly wild coincidence had lived around the corner from me in Fort Myers, Florida, this beautiful little stella orangetip butterfly...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 8, 2016
Imagine my surprise a few days ago as I was wandering through the dry, hot sagebrush desert of Central Washington State in rural northern Grant County flipping rocks in search or scorpions, spiders and reptiles to photograph when at the edge of a series of lakes there...
