Butterfly Babe

06/22/2026

A common thread between science and art: both depend on seeing patterns, details, relationships, and possibilities that most people overlook.

Women in Art /
The Women in Art Prize.

06/22/2026

If you want to attract these butterflies you need to feed their caterpillars! Click here to find seeds for their host plants: butterfly-lady.com/plant-host-plants/

06/22/2026

06/22/2026

☀️✨ Happy Summer Solstice ✨☀️
Today marks the longest day of the year—a sacred celebration of light, growth, abundance, and the limitless potential that resides within each of us.

As the Sun shines at its fullest expression, take a moment to honor your own journey. Reflect on how far you've come, the wisdom you've gained, and the light you've cultivated through life's experiences.

Even in our darkest moments, a single spark of hope, faith, love, or courage can illuminate a new path forward.

May this Summer Solstice remind you that your light matters. Your presence matters.

Your soul was born to shine.

🌞 What light are you bringing into the world this season?

What WORD are you choosing to embody this summer?🌞

Share your word in the comments below👇✨Let's inspire one another. ✨

06/21/2026

Deep in the swamps of Southwest Florida grows a flower so rare, so elusive, and so extraordinary that people spend years searching for it — and most never find one. 🌸🌿

The ghost orchid — Dendrophylax lindenii — is one of the rarest flowering plants in North America, found in the United States only in the cypress swamps of Southwest Florida, most reliably in the Fakahatchee Strand. It has no leaves. It grows no chlorophyll. It attaches its pale green roots directly to the bark of pond apple and pop ash trees and draws its nutrients from a specific mycorrhizal fungus in a relationship so particular that the orchid cannot survive outside the exact ecological conditions of a Florida strand swamp. It blooms unpredictably, its white flowers lasting only a few weeks, and it can only be pollinated by a single species of giant sphinx moth that flies only at night.

The Fakahatchee Strand that hosts the ghost orchid is itself one of Florida's most extraordinary natural places — a linear swamp forest running fifteen miles through Collier County, its black-water sloughs sheltering royal palms, bald cypress, and the largest number of native orchid species found anywhere in the continental United States. Access requires wading in dark water of uncertain depth, navigating by compass through a forest with no trails. The people who do it regularly — the botanists, the photographers, the obsessives — describe it as the closest thing to a genuinely wild Florida that still exists. Susan Orlean's book The Orchid Thief was set here. The movie Adaptation followed. Neither fully captured what it feels like to stand in that water at dawn.

Have you ever been to the Fakahatchee Strand or seen a ghost orchid? Drop a comment and follow for more of Florida's most extraordinary and hidden natural wonders. 👇