As the school term winds to a close, we end up having quite a lot of free time to explore. I finally figured out some of the features of my smartphone so I am able to get slightly better photos.
Today I took some pics of nature that as far as I know are not indigenous to the United States, which is where I am from. I've never seen these plants until I moved here at least.
The first bloom was on a tree that was about 8 feet tall and only one of the branches had any sort of vegetation on it at all. The rest of the plant appeared nearly dead but from all I know this could just be the normal cycle of this plant.
These little guys were sticking out all along the side of the river / canal. They don't appear to be particularly rare but they do appear to have been planted there, rather than naturally occurring.
Once again I have no idea what they are or what they are called. They don't have much of a scent to them either. I do think they are lovely regardless.
I guess I still need to work on my auto focus a bit. I think my phone is so smart that it outsmarted me and didn't know what to focus on here. This tree was just interesting to me because the area didn't have very many old, huge trees as most of the plants appear to have been put there in the past couple of years.
I just thought it was cool how the vines hang all the way down into the water below.
This isn't the first time I have seen this tree and one time when I was down here before there was a danger noodle (a snake) climbing up the vines into the tree. That freaked me out a little bit because his camouflage was pretty good and I didn't really even notice him until he was about 20 feet from my head. I didn't have much exposure to snakes when I lived in USA, and my little bit of exposure to them here has taught me that for the most part, they are not at all interested in you and would prefer, as I do, that we keep our distance.