These photos were taken over the last couple of months. Most are from our backyard and a few are from when we joined our friends for a sunset when they were camping out.

This young gator comes to visit occasionally. Look at that smile!

So, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, flies like a duck, but it whistles instead of quacking . . . is it a duck? Yep, it is a Black-Bellied Whistling Duck!

The little cotton-tailed rabbits are a bit cuter than the marsh hares on the island.

Busy Bees!!

And another visit . . .

Not a great photo, but a young Wood Stork was in our backyard. This was taken through the lanai screen. He flew away when I opened the screen door to get a better photo.

A few beautiful sunrises from our backyard

These last photos were taken when we joined our friends who were camping, so that we could take some sunset photos and hoping for some of the last Milky Way photos of the year.

Unfortunately, the clouds moved into view just as the sun went down enough to get some good photos.

I was able to get just a bit of the Milky Way above these clouds. Oh well, maybe next year!