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heronfoxphoto, 4 months ago to random

An Easter Gray #Squirrel sitting on the #stump of a #tree, getting ready to jump off and away.

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#EasternGraySquirre #l #WildlifePhotography #Photograph #SciurusCarolinensis

heronfoxphoto, 4 months ago to girlyposting

A patch of #pink #Gallic #rose #flowers at the #Kanapaha #Gardens in #Gainesville, #Florida.

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#GallicRose #RosaGallica #PinkFlowers #PinkRoses #KanapahaGardens #FloralPhotography #Photograph

heronfoxphoto, 4 months ago to Bloomscrolling

A #Gaillardia or #Blanket #Flower #Bloom, taken from close-up.
Blanket flowers are related to marigolds, and thrive in the salty environments of the Florida coast.

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#BlanketFlower #Gaillardia #Flower #FlowersOfMastodon #Bloomscrolling #Photography

heronfoxphoto, 4 months ago to Orange

A bright #orange #rose #flower.

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#OrangeFlower #RoseFlower #FlowersOfMastodon #Bloomscrolling

heronfoxphoto, 4 months ago to Plants

Bleeding Heart #Plants come in a variety of forms. #ClerodenrumSplendens, or #Flaming #GloryBower, has bright red #flowers that erupt from their buds, as in the #macro perspective

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#FlowersOfMastodon, #BleedingHeatVine, #RedFlowers, #Photography #Bloomscrolling

heronfoxphoto, 4 months ago to Florida

The #mascot of the #Florida Institute of Technology, #FloridaTech, is #Panther Pete, a member of a subspecies of panthers in Florida.
#FIT was established as a #university for #science and #engineering to provide educated workers for the newly-created NASA.

Check out Florida Tech's website at https://www.fit.edu/

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Go Panthers!

#FIT #PantherPete #statue #FloridaPanther #FloridaInstituteOfTechnology

heronfoxphoto, 4 months ago to Weather

The underside of an Air Force WC-130J #Weather #Reconnaissance #Airplane’s left horizontal stabilizer.
The prongs poking out behind the wing help the #plane discharge any accumulated electric charge.
The hinged section is the port #elevator.
The Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters stopped at #Orlando to educate the public about their mission.

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#AirForceReserve #HurricaneHunters #Photography

heronfoxphoto, 4 months ago to wildlife

A Great Blue #Heron walks across a shallow #pond in the Merritt Island National #Wildlife Refuge.
It seems to be taking its steps carefully and is looking backward to create an excellent profile #photograph.

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#GreatBlueHeron #ArdeaHerodias #Bird #Waterfowl #MINWR #Wetlands #BirdsOfMastodon #NationalWildlifeRefuge #MerrittIsland #Marsh #WildlifePhotography #Photography

heronfoxphoto, 4 months ago to girlyposting

“Oriental #Lily” is a term that refers to many, usually hybridized varietals of lily. Sometimes Tiger Lily is also used.
This #hybrid is called #Muscadet and is known for the #pink spots on its #white #petals.

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#FlowerFriday, #FlowersOfMastodon, #Bloomscrolling, #LiliumOrientalis
#HybridLily, #FloralPhotography, #Photograph

heronfoxphoto, 4 months ago to space

After launching the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, or #IXPE, a #spacecraft intended to study some of the most energetic phenomenon in the universe, the #Falcon 9 #booster core #B1016 landed on the Autonomous #Spaceport Drone #Ship and returned to #Port #Canaveral.

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#Falcon9 #FalconRocket #Falcon9BoosterCore #B1061 #ImagingXrayPolarimetryExplorer #NASA #ItalianSpaceAgency #Photograph

heronfoxphoto, 4 months ago to Apollo

The #Apollo #spacecraft included 2 scimitar #VHF #antennas for short-range communication with Earth, the Lunar Module, and the lunar surface.
The Block II #CSM, pictured here, moved the #antenna to the Service #Module from the Command Module.

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heronfoxphoto, 4 months ago to Florida

The #Sun sets below a hill at the #Apopka Wildlife Drive in Apopka, #Florida.
The #ApopkaWildlifeRefuge is an artificial #wetlands #habitat that is part of a water treatment system and provides habitats for thousands of species of #plants and animals.

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heronfoxphoto, 4 months ago to Bloomscrolling

A #bee flies toward the #flower of a #Bottlebrush #Tree.

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#MelaleucaCitrina, #Apis, #BottleBrushFlower, #RedFlower, #BottlebrushTree, #FlowersOfMastodon, #Bloomscrolling, #InsectsOfMastodon, #Photograph

RiversideBryan, 4 months ago to Bloomscrolling

#Bloomscrolling with the flowers of Jacksonville on Mandarin Road

#FlowerFriday #Flowers #Florida #Jacksonville #Nature #Wildflowers #StreetPhotography #Photography #AmateurPhotography #Pixelfed #GalaxyS23+ #FridayFlowers #Bloomscrolling

heronfoxphoto, 4 months ago to photography

The Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex built the Atlantis #Museum, they built life-size replicas of the Space Shuttle External Tank and Solid #Rocket Boosters directly in front of the building which held #SpaceShuttle Atlantis.

This #photograph was taken from below the #ExternalTank.

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#SpaceShuttleExternalTank, #SolidRocketBoosters, #SRBs, #AtlantisMuseum, #KennedySpaceCenterVisitorsComplex, #Photography

heronfoxphoto, 4 months ago to Flowers

Known by a variety of names, including hoary #mugwort, beach wormwood, and Dusty Miller in the US, the Artemisia stelleriana #plant grows along the sandy shores of the Canadian, Alaskan, Siberian, and Scandinavian coasts, as well as down the US Atlantic coast.
Despite its very small #flowers, it is a #sunflower relative.

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#DustyMiller, #HoaryMugwart, #BeachWormWood, #ArtemisiaStelleriana, #FlowersOfMastodon, #Bloomscrolling, #YellowFlowers, #Macro, #MacroPhotography, #Photograph

heronfoxphoto, 5 months ago to random

A male Northern #Shoveler #duck at the Merritt Island #NationalWildlifeRefuge.
#NorthernShovelers have a large number of color morphs depending on sex, season, age, and sometimes even region.

This Shoveler is swimming in the calm ponds of #MINWR.

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#SpatulaClypeata, #Waterfowl, #BirdsOfMastodon #WildlifePhotography, #Photograph

heronfoxphoto, 5 months ago to Plants

The #Cinnamon #fern is a fern native to the Americas and East Asia.
The larger #fronds are just for light-gathering. The tall, central #stalk that turns a cinnamon color while it matures, when it begins to spread the fern’s spores.
It is not considered edible and has no relation to culinary cinnamon, which is made from tree bark.

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#CinnamonFern, #OsmundastrumCinnamomeum, #Plants, #Photography

heronfoxphoto, 5 months ago to space

In spite of the joke that NASA spent a million dollars developing a pen that could write in space, while the Soviets just used a pencil.
In reality, US astronauts used pencils, crayons, and grease pencils, as did Soviet cosmonauts. None were an adequate solution.
Paul #Fischer, of Fischer #Pen Company, had been working on a pen that could write upside down or in any other position, something useful for many jobs, and offered it to NASA at a discount of $3 per pen.
When the Soviets eventually turned up asking for pen, they had to pay full retail.

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#NASA, #Apollo, #ApolloProgram, #SpacePen, #FischerPenCompany, #PaulFischer, #Photograph

heronfoxphoto, 6 months ago to art

25% off #sale on wall #Art like #posters and #Canvas #Prints:
This is a #MacroPhotography #Photo of #Cloves are the dried flower buds a tree native to #Indonesia. Cloves have a strong smell and flavor that can be used in either #sweet or #savory #cooking.

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#SyzygiumAromaticum, #SpicesOfMastodon, #WholeCloves, #Photograph

heronfoxphoto, 7 months ago to random

A chaotic mass of American White #Pelicans swimming in the water at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.
Their bright white plumage really sets them apart from the common brown pelican.

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#BirdsOfMastodon, #AmericanWhitePelican, #WhitePelican, #PelecanusErythrorhynchos, #Bird, #Waterfowl, #SwimmingBirds, #MINWR, #WildlifePhotography, #Photograph

heronfoxphoto, 7 months ago to Bloomscrolling

The Abutilon pictum is known by several names, including the Chinese Lantern and Flowering Maple Redvein.
However, the plant is not native to China or anywhere in East Asia, or west Asia for that matter.
It is native to central South America, in southern Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
Ornamental planting has become widespread, and the appearance of the flower probably inspired the name afterward.

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heronfoxphoto, 7 months ago to Flowers

The flowers of the #Champac #Magnolia, native to southeast Asia, produces many small, yellow #flowers with an incredibly sweet #aroma. Even though the flowers aren’t as grand as the Magnolia grandiflora common in the southeastern United States. Under the right conditions, the #tee can grow in height by inches per day.

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#MagnoliaChampaca, #MagnoliaFlowers, #ChapacFlowers, #YellowFlowers, #FlowersOfMastodon, #Bloomscrolling, #FloralPhotography, #Photograph

heronfoxphoto, 8 months ago to photography

A #Saturn IB #rocket on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor’s Complex.
The #SaturnIB helped test the Apollo spacecraft in Earth orbit.
The rocket also carried the Apollo spacecraft to the Skylab space station and to meet a Soviet Soyuz for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
The eight red nozzles are the 8 H-1 #engines that powered the rocket.

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#SaturnRocket, #SaturnI, #RocketEngine, #RocketGarden, #KSCVC, #Photography

heronfoxphoto, 8 months ago to Iceland

A contender in this round of #MinCup23, #Calcite comes in several forms, including #Optical Calcite, sometimes called #Iceland Spar or #Iceland Crystal, the strong #birefringence properties are on display in this #photograph as the #crystal creates a small #rainbow-like formation on the right side. This property has made it a candidate for the somewhat mysterious #SunStone from #Viking legend, able to find the Sun despite overcast conditions by looking for the double #refraction.
This form of calcite often cleaves into parallelepiped (parallelogram extended into 3D) sections, such as the one pictured.

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#OpticalCalcite, #IcelandSpar, #Minerology, #VoteCalcite, #Photograph, #MacroPhotography