Wiley’s Whims!

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Gator Woman

Our magnificent Florida Panther Photo credit: Florida Panther page According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a whim is: ” a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind.” Lately, it appears that Nick Wiley is having a turn of the mind, or rethinking many things, including, Panthers, Black Bears, to hunt or not to hunt […]

Marjory, Miccosukees and Memories

Posted on July 13, 2015 by Gator Woman

Marjory Stoneman Douglas in 1983, canoeing with a Miccosukee Tribal member at the Miccosukee Cultural Center in the Everglades, near Forty mile Bend. Photo credit: Florida State Archives Our beloved Everglades are about to be put under siege and attack once again from greedy, selfish developers and oil mongers. After the myriad of deceitful, destructive insults that have been inflicted on one of the […]

Ishi, et al.

Posted on January 17, 2015 by Gator Woman

Our baby Ishi, so far, the only child of our sweet Harriet Not wishing to put you all to sleep or bore you yesterday with a excruciatingly long post, I decided to split it in half, this then, is part two. All the news today is not bad, some of it is actually wonderful. […]

Power, Panthers, People: Who Will Win?

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Gator Woman

The magnificent Florida Panther Photo credit: sfwmd.gov **Thought about this in my sleep last night and wanted to add it.** The “sunshine state” should never build another fossil fuel power plant, everything from this point on should be green energy, as in solar and wind. Florida has an abundance of both and should be using them NOW!! […]

Ethics Be Dammed

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Gator Woman

The magnificent, soon likely to be extinct, Florida Panther Picture credit: The Florida Panther page Just now on our lunchtime news, was a story about our Governor’s supposed questionable connection to some of the very same Companies that had recently been given permission to drill for oil by our DEP in Collier County. They said, that he owns a […]

A Day of Animal Mourning

Posted on May 16, 2014 by Gator Woman

A Florida Panther, Everglades National Park 2005 National Park Service Photo by Rodney Cammauf While watching Sam Champion on the Weather Channel this morning, I was painfully reminded, that today is “Endangered Species Day.” Today is shamefully called National, or is it Global Endangered Species Day? This day was apparently created nearly a decade ago, by the US […]