Oak Trees with Spanish Moss!

I have been smitten by a lot of things in my life.

Birds, love, nature, waterfalls, mountains, music....

and

gigantic oak trees with Spanish moss.

Today, I am posting many photos of them for you.

In person, they are magical.

The least breeze sends the moss swaying.

Placed next to a historical plantation arch?

Undescribably beautiful:

Wondrous at every angle:

Did you know it is against the law in Savannah

to cut down these old oak trees??

I say: thank goodness they GET IT!:

This one was actually at a road stop in Florida:

This one is at the Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah. (I will be doing many blogposts of this place next).

I can't think of a more beautiful place to have one's body spend eternity:

Vines AND Spanish moss? It doesn't get much better than THAT:

When you stand under one of these magnificent treasures and look up, it is amazing:

And a street-lined fantasy like this makes you think of old Victorian novels:

(I wondered how many people (like me, standing in the middle of the road taking photos and loving it) get hit by cars every year).

They say the moss is full of bugs.

I don't care....I just want to stare at it:

A. Lot.

I loved the fact that there was the oak tree with moss and the palms right below it:

Can you tell this is one of my favorite places in the whole world?

Wait.  Maybe not.

Maybe it's THIS one:

I so loved how the puddles reflected the heavenly scene before me:

In Savannah, these tree-lined streets are everywhere.

I'd be dangerous driving there on an every day basis...I wouldn't be watching

the traffic!:

So, I hope I met my goal today:
To show you what Heaven will look like when you get there.

Wormsloe Park in Savannah Georgia: Part THREE

Please go below this blogpost for Parts ONE and TWO

if you haven't read about Wormsloe State Historic Site in Georgia

yet.

Today, I am ending the series with just some nature shots that we got

on the trails in the park.

I was Oooo-ing and Awwww-ing all through our walk

because I found the tropical woods so wondrous.

I was snapping away at everything with my lens.

So grab a mint julip and get your Savannah woods on....

Found a spunky squirrel up in the trees:

I couldn't STOP taking photos of the big oaks full of Spanish moss:

I loved this mossy stump next to the palms:

The palm leaves backlit by the sun:

Everything looked so bright green after the rain and when the sun came out:

Oh gosh...vines AND Spanish moss...it was too wonderful:

I just loved the driftwood we saw on the property. I always wondered just how OLD it might have been:

A wonderfully twisted dead tree:

A little black and white drama of the tree!:

Right as we were leaving the park, I heard a familiar tap-tap-tap.

A woodpecker near the Spanish moss!:

One last shot of the wonderfully twisted dead tree:

Next post, I will do the entire post on those gorgeous Oak trees with spanish moss.

Because I just HAVE to share them with everybody.

I HAVE to......

Florida Vacation Trip Photos: Part TWO

For those of you that didn't read yesterday's post, you may want to drop down and look at that first....

Now for the rest of us...let's carry on, shall we?

We blasted by car through several states, pretty farm lands, but it was flat.

Highway I-75 heading straight down from Michigan to Florida

is pretty boring.

The first intesting thing we started noticing were miles and miles where they must have had to blast through rock to make the highway.

We liked seeing the layers of rock:

And then we got into the Cumberland Mountains, which were like huge rolling hills!:

We thought of how beautiful it probably is in the spring and fall.



Then, it got flatter and flatter as we approached the Florida state line:

AT LAST...we were approaching the Florida border!!!

It was still in the 60's, but that felt a lot better than the 30 degrees we had left just a few days before!

My husband spotted the state line and a sign for the Florida Welcome center rest stop.

I wanted to go further before we took a break, but since he was our driver for the last two days, I had to listen to the Pilot.

So we pull into the rest stop, and THIS

is the first thing I see!:

Nope.

We weren't in Michigan any more!!!

I wasn't sure I wanted to get out of the car.

But THEN:

I saw THIS!:

I LOVE Oak trees with hanging Spanish Moss!

I took several pictures of the trees there and wandered around like a silly tourist with the camera clicking away.

You can't blame me.

At almost every turn there was Spanish moss begging to be photographed.

Some had entwining ferns:

Some looked like it had been hugging the trees for years:

And then, we rejoiced to see the first tropical plants on the whole trip down!:

And then, before leaving the Spanish moss there, I saw this lovely arch of it!:

And FINALLY:

Our first palm tree!:

It was so good to see tropical vegetation, because we knew we were finally almost there.

On our way out of this lovely road stop, there was a lookout that pointed over Florida countryside.

I really liked this old, dead tree there:

We stayed almost an hour there, taking in the tropical plants and snapping away photos.

We climbed back in the car, knowing we were closer to our destination, refreshed and happy.

Stay tuned for our destination photos next!

*P.S. Don't forget to go out and get your photo for entry into the first ever Retirement Chronicles Monthly Amateur Photo contest! January's theme is "Anything Rusty". Submit your entry by Jan. 31st, midnight.