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Cypress forest in the wetlands of South Carolina.
My favorite color. Green on a rainy day
My favorite sound. 🍃
You know I love to see it.
Very happy moment for me to find a Bald Cypress gut with knees and everything here in the foothills. Cypress forests along the swamps and rivers at home are abundant, and I miss them. I found a tiny piece of home up here.
Bald Cypress trees along the Waccamaw River.
Fall around the Waccamaw Neck looks a little different, but gosh I love it so much. This has always been my favorite time at home on the coast.
Back in my home home town for Christmas. That means we’re hanging out in the swamp with the tupelos. We also got the company of a Red Tailed Hawk!
Hung out in the swamp Tuesday.
No place brings me as much joy and comfort as the swamps along the coastal plains.
I love an Egret and a swamp :)
The Waccamaw River and a bald cypress tree.
My most special place in the world. Congaree National Park. This place has held a very special place in my heart since my very first visit a few years ago. It’s so much more than a boardwalk through the woods. You have to truly understand the rare beauty you enter. Pictures can never capture the magic of an old growth forest. There are very few left (like count on one hand few) - especially in the southeast.
When I step into the canopy of Congaree, I enter a time machine showing me what the land here is suppose to look like. Still to this day, wetlands are in grave danger and are flattened and filled in with sand and dirt in the name of cookie cutter neighborhoods. No retaining pond could ever make up for the loss. Then when entire towns by the coast get flooded by the storm seasons, people act surprised. Floodplains and swamps are vital to the natural ecosystem of our home. Not to mention the rich habitats and diverse ecosystems they hold. It’s recently been discovered that bald cypress trees can live longer than 2,000 years. Congaree is ancient. Once you ruin a wetland, you can’t get it back- not for several lifetimes.
We drove up to Congaree tonight because we received a permit from the lottery system to view the synchronous fireflies. They only occur two known places in the world. Congaree and the Smokies. More to come on that later.