Along with fun fish, we also saw an amazing diversity of wildflowers and
butterflies. The Solomon Seal is up all over the damp forest floor, and
Virginia Bluebells were all in flower in the sand along the creek. We even
found a patch of yellow violets, in the middle of the more typical purple
ones. There were hundreds and hundreds of zebra and tiger swallowtail
butterflies out and often all visible simultaneously, along with other
species I couldn't ID.
For those of you who want to be up on your Choctaw vocabulary, the word
Sipsey means tulip poplar tree. I just read that this week. (And the creek
is lined with a bunch of them.)
--Bruce Stallsmith
Huntsville, AL, US of A
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