Boo! Just in time for Halloween, found this Ghost Flower, on a trail in Maple Park.

Ghost flowers don't have any chlorophyll-- they feed off fungus that feed off trees.

Water oak leaves off the hiking trail at Maple Park

Plenty of pawpaw fruits could be found on the Supplejack Trail in the Dismal Swamp State Park.

I can also report that they were DELICIOUS!

Wisteria was in full fragrant bloom in Hertford, NC on April 12, 2009

Lots of Bald Cypress Trees.

Lots of Spanish Moss hung on the Baldcypress trees in Merchant's Millpond State Park

Saw a number of beaver dams, beaver chewed trees and one swimming beaver (sorry about the blurry picture) at Merchant's Millpond State Park

Saw two Canadian geese nests while canoeing at Merchant's Millpond State Park-- one on top of a Beaver dam and one in an old bald cypress tree.

A pair of bald eagles were circling above Merchant's Millpond State Park

Saw an alligator (and a painted turtle) sunning themselves on logs off of the yellow canoe trail in Merchant's Millpond State Park

Saw a turkey vulture circling overheard on the Lassiter Trail near the Longleaf Pine Forest

A pretty plumb brown thrasher hung out in a bush on Hunter Street in Elizabeth City North Carolina

Beautiful sweet gum with its winged twigs and distinctive dangling balls are prevalent on the walking trail at Fun Junktion. Some trees were growing in the water.

On the swamps west of the pond at Fun Junktion, there is a bald cypress swamp.

There wasn't much mistletoe on the trees around Fun Junktion at all. I spotted one lone occurence.

Off of the Nature Trail in Appomattox Court House National Park.

Mountain Laurel! Off of the Nature Trail at Appomattox Court House National Park.

American Beech tree off of the Nature Trail at Appomattox Court House National Park.

Off the History Trail at Appomattox Court House National Park.

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