Blue Sky Ecological Reserve - Visit Date:  October 01, 2024, Tuesday.  It was 90+ degrees hot and humid.  Several images merged using Adobe Photoshop.  "We are old, strong, wise, rooted solid to Mother Earth.  We provide shelter."
Blue Sky Ecological Reserve - Visit Date:  October 01, 2024, Tuesday.  It was 90+ degrees hot and humid.  Several images merged using Adobe Photoshop.  "We are old, strong, wise, rooted solid to Mother Earth.  We provide shelter."
Blue Sky Ecological Reserve - Visit Date:  October 01, 2024, Tuesday.  It was 90+ degrees hot and humid.
Blue Sky Ecological Reserve - Visit Date:  October 01, 2024, Tuesday.  It was 90+ degrees hot and humid.  The scar looking shapes is actually moss growing onto the solid rock.
Blue Sky Ecological Reserve - Visit Date:  October 01, 2024, Tuesday.  It was 90+ degrees hot and humid. 
Blue Sky Ecological Reserve - Visit Date:  October 01, 2024, Tuesday.  It was 90+ degrees hot and humid.  I am not sure what this plant is called, it looked fragile and too fuzzy to touch.
Blue Sky Ecological Reserve - Visit Date:  October 01, 2024, Tuesday.  It was 90+ degrees hot and humid.  "It is hot and humid, I'm building my shelter.  This photographer just had to take the picture, geeez."
Blue Sky Ecological Reserve - Visit Date:  October 01, 2024, Tuesday.  It was 90+ degrees hot and humid.  "I am old, strongly and rooted solid to Mother Earth.  I am in self-disclosure mode with my roots exposed.  What you see is what you get."  How about you?
Blue Sky Ecological Reserve - Visit Date:  October 01, 2024, Tuesday.  It was 90+ degrees hot and humid.  "I am old with many strong branches, and I am wise.  I will stand strong, anchored solid to Mother Earth."
Blue Sky Ecological Reserve - Visit Date:  October 01, 2024, Tuesday.  It was 90+ degrees hot and humid.
Blue Sky Ecological Reserve - Visit Date:  October 01, 2024, Tuesday.  It was 90+ degrees hot and humid.  "It is hot and humid, I choose to survive and be alive and green."