Ahh the wonders you can find in a swamp!

These little flowers were growing on this bush,

and I thought how wonderful they looked amongst the greenery of the swamp!

This is a real closeup of the flower on that bush.

And to think when you first see this bush it is just

another swamp bush with some kind of flower growing on it.

But, a closer look reveals something that is quit pretty to look at!

Global warming?

When I was young we used to watch birds and other creatures

go to the swamp to bath, it was across the street from our house.

I went back there not to long ago and I was amazed at what I saw!

The swamp that used to have a lot of water in it, now has a

slight muddy area. My question is where did the water go?

Is it global warming? And if not ,what happend to all the water?

Hmmm? mystery unsolved so far.

I just love these delicate flowers!

When I was a child these grew on our side lawn.

My babysitter(the lady who babysat me) picked one of the flowers,

she put the end in her mouth and sucked on it.

I found out when I tried to do it that I had to hold the flower between my fingers.

The first time I did it I sucked the whole flower into my mouth.

When I learned the proper way to suck on this flower,

I got a very sweet nectar from the flower,if I did not know better I would say it was honey.

My brothers and I used to taste these flowers everytime we went outside.

I have no idea what kind of flower it is, but it is very sweet  and pretty too.

This is not one of this years sunsets, but I thought it was amazing!

This is one of the many different sunsets I saw while I was at the island .

It was so beautiful!

Even through the trees it was a beautiful sight!

And when the sun gets down to the horizon the whole sky turns a bright orange!

All I can say is a river runs through it!

This is a local river that runs through the city.

You are actually looking East from the resturant on the west side of this city.

The retention pond at the bottom of the picture is actually better color in the photo,

in reality it is kind of green and not so appealing, as is the river.

But the sky above does reflect it's color beautifully off this river to make a nice photo.

When I pulled over to take this picture my husband wanted to know why.

I told him can't you see the color contrasts?

Of course he looked at me like I was nuts.

I probably am, but this photo has some nice colors going on.

Besides the color, it shows that after a devastation it takes a greatdeal of

 time for things to recover, especially trees!

I wish I could say this is a good photo but I had to take it from a distance.

This farmer has all kinds of wooden carvings on his land.

The sun was so bright this day that the wooden figures were hard to get a clear shot of.

This is one that looked like a pioneer with his gun.

This wooden sculpture was made from a tree that actually had grown on this farmer's property.

                    It looks quit angry though. Maybe it is suppose to represent a really bear, if you
                 encountered him in the field. I just was amazed to see all these wooden creations
                  out in a farmer's field. Not only is this person a farmer, but apparently an artist as well!