Wise counsel.
Spanish moss.
The moss grows on old oak trees, but it doesn’t harm them. It’s an air plant. It draws all its nourishment from rain, fog, and the air around it. It just uses the trees for support.
A pipevine swallowtail.
Old, ragged, and still rocking it.
This is a bald cypress grove.
Normally the water would be up to the high-water mark on the trees and all those lower trunks underwater, but the lake has been temporarily drained to deal with topwater weed growth. Once that dries out completely, they’ll bring the lake back up to normal levels and this whole cypress grove will be flooded again.
Evening light.
