Panola Mountain (With A French Accent)

 

Panola Mountain photos for you, as promised!  Panola Mountain State Park has several trails. The Outcrop Trail is one that obviously goes beside the rock outcrop, but it also goes through a forested area and beside the trail one can enjoy blooming trees and wildflowers.

At one part of it, you can see Stone Mountain! (That is the photo above.). Now, Stone Mountain is close to 15 miles away, so it was a clear day that we were there! 

  There is the rock outcrop with some of the bright red diamorpha!

Can you see the fringe tree with the pretty white blooms? It was very shady under these trees but there were quite a few of them.  This tree is Chionanthus virginicus. It is a native tree.

Now, can you see someone trying to camouflage behind this rock?

Ha ha, I am ONE with nature! There are massive boulders like this scattered all through this park.  Most of them don't have people posing with them, LOL!

 

Years ago, I told you in a post that they built a boardwalk where you can see Panola Mountain...

You can't really see it very well in a photo, but right there in the middle, where the trees are slightly higher, that is Panola Mountain! If there is a group on top of the mountain at the same time you are on this boardwalk, you can actually wave to the folks on top! Okay, I really wanted to see some lilies that bloom in this area in April...

Found them! This made me so happy! It is the atamasco lily, zephyranthes atamasco.  It is also a native.

This resurrection fern is on top of a rock boulder here and it also grows on trees or tree stumps.  It is a most amazing plant, the Pleopeltis polypodioides.

 This remarkable plant can lose about 75 percent of its water content during a typical dry period and possibly up to 97 percent in an extreme drought. During this time, it shrivels up to a grayish brown clump of leaves. When it is exposed to water again, it will “come back to life” and look green and healthy. The plant gets its name from this supposed “resurrection,” but it never actually dies during the process. By contrast, most other plants can lose only 10 percent of their water content before they die. Fronds are typically 4 to 12 inches (10 to 30 centimeters) in length.

Saying "goodbye" to our Panola Mountain State Park until next time. 

    Happy Trails!

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Hope you are all doing well, my friends!  When I wrote my last post, there was still light green leaves on all the trees. Now, our trees are fully leafed out and it looks like summer! (On some days, it has felt like it!)  

When I watch TV shows or sporting events, I spend a lot of time pausing and researching the background of the cities that I see on the screen. Bozouls is in the South of France. Have you ever been there? I have, IN MY MIND! I love beauty and beautiful places. 

Hey! We just had a thunderstorm. Might as well give you some "Summer Lightning"!  Richard plays this all the time!