Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Adding a little life to the purple verbena in my front yard

Cedars of Lebanon State Park, TN

Being a short drive from Nashville, it has all the things people like for vacations with recreation, a huge swimming pool, multiple campgrounds, cabins, a lodge, etc. But the most significant thing to me is their multiple nature trails in both forest and cedar glades with some rare flowers found only here. I spent yesterday morning walking in the woods and glades (flat dry meadows) photographing flowers and butterflies. Here's just 3 of the photos. To see more go to the gallery for this nature walk

Tiger Swallowtail on possibly "Beaked Corn Salad" flower

Spicebush Swallowtail in field of Glade Wild Petunias

Some kind of Fritillary or Crescentspot Butterfly

on a Tennessee or Eggert's Sunflower

State Parks Trip

As part of my effort to visit all 53 state parks, I finished off all the West Tennessee parks last week and have a sample photo of each at http://www.pbase.com/charliedoggett/travel_state_parks_west
Eventually I will have a gallery for each individual park with many more photos! But for this nature blog, I thought I would share two of the wildlife photos made last week:

Dragonfly at Big Cypress Tree State Park

Butterfly at Natchez Trace State Park