Fragment of an exhibit at the Natchez Association for the Preservation of Afro-American Culture (NAPAC) on Main St Natchez. Their huge collection of ephemera of black culture is brilliantly organized, open daily and free.
Deeptime on Middle Island: Fossils found on the sand spit of a shifting Island where silt, debris and pebbles collect. In Miss-Lou, a way to describe a wiggly border between states.
Lygodium Japonicum aka Japanese climbing fern (JCF) looks like a delicate cascade of ferny fractals. I had never seen anything like it aside from a floral display. Its frilly layers wind up and down trees and structures like so much kudzu dressed up for a prom. The webs say JCF was imported into florida as an ornamental in 1930. As it tolerates both low shade and cold weather, it is highly successful in forests and cypress swamps/my discovery of a small -what can one say- "stand"?- in Natchez MS seems to indicate it continues to spread.