Earth Colors:

Red          dirt from Red Hill, MS

Black       burned grasses from swamp

Green      American Pokeweed leaves

Yellow     Renunculus flowers

Blue         Spiderwort flowers

Brown     Yazoo River mud

SPRING series: 

In spring, the bald cypress supports an array of life from top to bottom. Its angular branches are starting to layer with feathery leaves and are a warm nesting spot for awakening life. Throughout the golden day birds, insects, flowers and fruit create a vibrant outdoor cafe; a throng of activity and live music from sun up to sundown.

March

Eastern Screech Owl Megascops asio 

Woolly Pipevine Aristolochia tomentosa

Pipevine Swallowtail Battus philenor

April

Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea 

Crossvine  Bignonia capreolata 

Damselfly Zygoptera 

May

Summer Tanager Piranga rubra 

Buttonbush Cephalanthus occidentalis

Paper Wasp  Polistes exclamans

SUMMER series: 

In summer, the bald cypress supports an array of life from top to bottom. Its angular branches  are layered with feathery leaves and are a canopy of cool cover in the heat of the humid swamp. Throughout the steamy day birds, insects, flowers and fruit create a vibrant outdoor cafe; a throng of activity and live music from sun up to sundown. The locals and summer residents from the tropics are a noisy crowd. When the sun sets, the feathered “fishermen” come in to roost, clustering in crowds on every available limb.  Cypress is adorned in whites and grays for the night. 

August

Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris 

Trumpet Creeper vine Campsis radicans 

bumblebee bombus spp.

July 

Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus 

Virginia creeper vine  Parthenocissus quinquefolia 

Virginia creeper sphinx moth caterpillar Darapsa myron 

June

Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus 

Paw-Paw Asimina triloba 

Zebra Swallowtail     Protographium marcellus