In the South, the Deep South . . .

Last week my husband, brother-in-law and I were driving waaaaaaaaaaayyyyy out in the country. Fortunately we had a camera in tow and, being the very kind husband that he is, mine obliged me by stopping once, to take a few photos to share with all of you myriad readers of mine. (4+1, perhaps? Quite the myriad, no?) We saw LOTS of corn fields on this trip. Tons. Just think of all the ethanol they can make with that stuff. But, that aside, we were hungry and thought of having a couple of steaming hot ears of golden, freshly picked, sweet corn dripping with butter, topped with salt and freshly ground pepper . . . Uuuuuummmmm! (It was very tempting, until I figured it was only field corn, and that's not my idea good eating corn.)

Then, we also saw many fields of soy beans. The picture below is only one of them. Isn't it rich and deep, dark green? It was a really nice looking field.


Then, right next door (more or less) there was this grouping of trees, etc. Care to guess what's lurking there not too far away?

Check out the "bear grass" palmetto plant sort of in the middle at the bottom of the picture below. That's reputed to be murder on those trekking through wooded areas like this one. (It would've been rough going on those early Spanish, etc., explorers of the "New World." And that's not mentioning all the vines of poisonous plants, spiders, snakes, mosquitos, etc. So . . . let your imagination run wild! I'm sure I've not even come close to identifying half of what might lurk just out of camera range . . . or maybe even IN camera range, just undiscovered!

Have you guessed yet, what should be a bit more evident in this picture than the previous one?

No? Well, how about in this next one . . . [I'll take Bush Babe's (of Granite Glen) tack and leave it open to your wit and wisdom, even though her pictures are professional and mine very amateurish.] If interested, I'll print one of these and mail them to the first one who acurately guesses what these last three pictures are recording. I'm sure you'll figure it out.

I thought this area was very beautiful and was glad I got to take a few pictures!