Lucy Beebe Tobias is an award-winning author, blogger, journalist, photographer, and illustrator.A former reporter for the New York Times RegionalGroup, Lucy's work included in-depth investigativereporting on the status of Florida panthers, Florida waterissues and animal rights issues. She created an ongoingnewspaper page called Discovery covering Floridaenvironmental issues.As the Authentic Florida expert for Visit FloridaLucy was the narrator for videos about Florida, includingApalachicola and the oyster debate, reenactments of civilwar events and destination videos about undiscoveredFlorida. As Authentic Florida expert she also bloggedand spoke at Visit Florida events.Lucy writes narrative non-fiction, looking at life andfinding humor, beauty, and reasons for hope. Visitwww.LucyTobias.com.She writes a free weekly blog called Wednesday Notes, looking at the garden, family and dog friendly places to travel in Florida, and more undiscovered Florida.Lucy lives in Sarasota, Florida with one dog andtwo cats. All are rescues. Her back garden has native plants, ponds, butterflies, birds, bees and a gathering of goldfish