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Taken in Pembroke Pines with a Nikon camera.
Jim Matiya writes, “I woke up and looked outside to see if the rain had stopped. I could not believe what I saw! We have three palm trees behind our house and there were 20 ghost flowers blooming! They only bloom for a short time in the morning. Thank you Pete Cangialosi for giving me the flowers before you moved to Minnesota.” Taken in Estero with a Coolpix P100 camera.
“Only in Florida,” Linda Normoyle says she thought while taking this sunset sky in the pouring rain from her car window. Taken with an iPhone15 Pro Max.
A cormorant fiercely grapples with a slippery fish at Ding Darling Wildlife Refuge. Taken with a Canon Rebel T6i at f/5.6, ISO=800 and 1/1600 sec.
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A swallowtail butterfly at the Peace River Botanical and Sculpture Gardens. Taken with a Sony DSC-RX10M4.
This article originally appeared on Fort Myers News-Press: Estero, Peace River, SWFL photos: Swallowtail butterfly, cormorant