Sea oats help keep the dunes in place at St. Joseph Peninsula State Park in the panhandle of Florida. This park has some of the largest dunes in the state.

These exotic grasses seem to burst into flame when touched by the early morning sunlight. Beauty comes from many places and this is just one of them.

Yellow mushrooms growing at the base of a tree in the Smoky Mountains National Park.

Whats left of an old cypress tree stumpin the River Junction Recreation Area where the Withlacoochee and Little Withlacoochee rivers merge just before they empty into Silver Lake. I couldn't resist the shapes and textures.

Cluster of air plants in Six Mile Cypress Slough in Ft. Myers, Florida.

The morning light plays through the fronds in Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve in Ft. Myers, Florida.

A mushroom growing in one of the doors at Ft. Morgan in Mobile, Alabama.

Water Hyacinth leaves.

Unusual cactus shape found in Hillsborough County, Florida.

This cypress tree was at the swimming beach at Lake Louisa State Park, Florida.

It almost looks like one of the old Spanish conquistadors got trapped in a palm.