"In the name of the bee..."

                                                        live oak tree=habitat

                                                           Carolina wren

                                                        red-bellied wood-pecker

                                                            grey squirrel

                                                       some sort of fly creature



after spending 4 days at this little grove of  live oak trees
on the banks of the west pearl river
I was rewarded with the company every day of these animals
the oaks, the spanish moss, the resurrection fern and the lichens
are the animals grocery store
and every day they would arrive and go from tree to tree
poking around for bugs and caterpillars and various other
groceries
the live oak trees live for hundreds of years and the wood is too
hard to use for most construction so there are still some very
old trees....but some of the trees became prized for their
very tough and hard wood and they were sought out and
harvested for ship building

"In the name of the bee
And the butterfly
And the Breeze- Amen!"   Emily Dickenson

and when I start to get too hot
I think of captain Oates
"I am just going outside,I may be sometime."