4/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Sunday
#SwampSunday
#SundaySeashore
#SilentSunday
#Stunday
#FolkloreSunday
#SenryūSunday (or #SenryuSunday)
#SelfPortraitSunday
#SmallPoemSunday
#ShakespeareSunday
4 of 8 #SundayHashtags
#SundayBells
#SundayBookChoices
#SundaySeashore
#SundaySermons
#SundaySheep
#SundayStonework
#SundayStreetMusic
#SundaySunflowers
#SundayYellow
#SundialSunday
#SwampSunday
#WildflowerHour 8-9 pm
In 2017, the West Mims Fire consumed over a 133,700 acres in the Okefenokee Refuge. Photo from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Fire Managment Division, taken at the GA / FL line.
Peat fires aren’t always a threat; they are a necessary "Ruin and Renewal". By clearing brush and keeping waterways open, they maintain the swamp's vital balance. Nature heals itself if we stop industrial interference with its cycle. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #ProtectTheSwamp
Photo of: Carphephorus odoratissimus (syn. Trilisa odoratissima) common name vanillaleaf. Photo By Alex Abair - https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/170536845, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=179636786
Among the 200+ herbaceous plants in the Okefenokee is the fragrant "Deer's Tongue" [Carphephorus odoratissimus]. Its leaves were once a prized addition to tobacco mixtures, a small, aromatic secret hidden among the carnivorous sundews and pitcher plants. #SwampSunday #PlantLore #Okefenokee #HerbLore
Pie-billed Grebe, P. p. podiceps, summer plumage By Dori - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9617312
The Pied-billed Grebe is often called the "water witch" because she disappears underwater so quickly, leaving only her head visible. In the pickerelweed, she is a master of the "now you see her, now you don’t" swamp magic. #SwampSunday #NatureLore #Okefenokee #Folklore
Photographer: Robert R Leahey, Photographed in May 1957. Georgia's best-known traditional storyteller was fishing guide Lem Griffis. Griffis entertained visitors to his fish camp outside Fargo with well-honed whoppers such as a tale, called "Odd Insects," told to Kay L. Cothran: "See that honey a-sittin' up there on the shelf? Well, I crossed my bees with lightnin' bugs so they could see how t' work at night, an' they make a double crop o' honey every year." Stories about hunting and fishing, colorful characters of the past, and memories of growing up on one of the "islands" in the Okefenokee still abound in the region, but few could tell a tall tale like Lem Griffis.
For years, fishing guide Lem Griffis was the swamp's "unofficial Charon," guiding outsiders like filmmaker Jean Renoir through the blackwater. Known for "well-honed whoppers," he once claimed he crossed his bees with lightning bugs so they could work at night!. #SwampSunday #Folklore #Okefenokee
Enjoying putting my feet into the dark tannic waters that abound in S Georgia!
Sailors once carried barrels of amber-colored swamp water, praising its "mystical" ability to stay fresh. Ironically, the tannins from tree bark that dye the water like Coca-Cola also act as a natural purifier, keeping bacteria from growing. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee
#SundayBells
#SundayBookChoices
#SundaySeashore
#SundaySermons
#SundaySheep
#SundayStonework
#SundayStreetMusic
#SundaySunflowers
#SundayYellow
#SundialSunday
#SwampSunday
#WildflowerHour 8-9 pm
4/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Sunday
#SwampSunday
#SundaySeashore
#SilentSunday
#Stunday
#FolkloreSunday
#SenryūSunday (or #SenryuSunday)
#SelfPortraitSunday
#SmallPoemSunday
#ShakespeareSunday
4 of 8 #SundayHashtags
Cypress knees along the St Mary's River, Georgia. Photograph: The Swamp Wytch / R.M. Stanford
To walk among Cypress knees is to walk through a living cathedral. These woody protrusions anchor the trees in the shifting muck of the swamp, embodying a deep, grounded resilience. They are the bones of the wetlands, weathered and wise. They are the Ancestors. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #Animism
Okefenokee giant pitcher plant (Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis D.E.Schnell) Photographer:Karan A. Rawlins, University of Georgia, Bugwood.org
Photo of Floating Bladderwort, Utricularia inflata. Photographer: Alan Cressler
Behind every sweet scent in the swamp lies a deadly secret. Pitcher plants and Butterworts don't just grow; they wait. Their energy is as cunning as their design—a reminder that in the Okefenokee, even the flora has an appetite. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #WitchSky
American Alligator laying in swamp water, Wassaw NWR, Public Domain, https://www.fws.gov/media/american-alligator-laying-swamp-water
Known as "Murder-Logs," the American alligator is a staple of Southern rootwork. Their paws & teeth are prized in luck magic—not just for power, but for the dark, resilient energy of a creature that has survived since the dinosaurs. Truly the ancient guardians of the Okefenokee. #SwampSunday
Photos of Bald Cypress trees in a swamp, Georgia. Photo by Holt Webb from his book "Vanishing America"
Headless ghosts, colorful lights dancing around cypress knees, burial mounds for Giants... These are only a few of the tales from the Okefenokee Swamp. The dark, tannic water flows in my veins. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #folklore #WitchSky
4/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Sunday
#SwampSunday
#SundaySeashore
#SilentSunday
#Stunday
#FolkloreSunday
#SenryūSunday (or #SenryuSunday)
#SelfPortraitSunday
#SmallPoemSunday
#ShakespeareSunday
4 of 8 #SundayHashtags
#SundayBells
#SundayBookChoices
#SundaySeashore
#SundaySermons
#SundaySheep
#SundayStonework
#SundayStreetMusic
#SundaySunflowers
#SundayYellow
#SundialSunday
#SwampSunday
#WildflowerHour 8-9 pm
#SundayBells
#SundayBookChoices
#SundaySeashore
#SundaySermons
#SundaySheep
#SundayStonework
#SundayStreetMusic
#SundaySunflowers
#SundayYellow
#SundialSunday
#SwampSunday
#WildflowerHour 8-9 pm
4/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Sunday
#SwampSunday
#SundaySeashore
#SilentSunday
#Stunday
#FolkloreSunday
#SenryūSunday (or #SenryuSunday)
#SelfPortraitSunday
#SmallPoemSunday
#ShakespeareSunday
4 of 7 #SundayHashtags
4/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Sunday
#SwampSunday
#SundaySeashore
#SilentSunday
#Stunday
#FolkloreSunday
#SenryūSunday (or #SenryuSunday)
#SelfPortraitSunday
#SmallPoemSunday
#ShakespeareSunday
4 of 6 #SundayHashtags
Photo from the Okefenokee Swamp showing spanish moss hanging from cypress trees. Unknown photographer.
Spanish Moss is said to be the hair of a very old man who lived for ages after making a deal with the Devil. When he finally died, his hair draped over the trees.
#Okefenokee #SwampSunday #WitchSky
Photo of one of the small footpath boardwalks within the Okefenokee Swamp.
"To understand that the earth is wild, and that we are of the earth, and also wild: some of us are willing to feel this more strongly than others."
— Janisse Ray, 2020 essay "I Have Seen the Warrior: Crossing the Okefenokee" published in Terrain.org
#SwampSunday #Okefenokee
Photo By/Credit Dan Chapman/USFWS Lily pads at Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. 02/20/2024
"What would the world be, once bereft of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; long live the weeds and the wilderness yet."
—From “Inversnaid” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
#SwampSunday #Okefenokee
#SundayBells
#SundayBookChoices
#SundaySeashore
#SundaySermons
#SundaySheep
#SundayStonework
#SundayStreetMusic
#SundaySunflowers
#SundayYellow
#SundialSunday
#SwampSunday
#WildflowerHour 8-9 pm
Photo from within the Okefenokee Swamp, Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017. Shows a look within the blackwater swamps of the Okefenokee in rural South Georgia. Cypress trees and oaks line the canal's edges.
"There’s a famous pundit, a patriarch of the Incels, who sneers and says, as if it’s an insult, that witches come from the swamp. In a way, he’s right—witchcraft is born of the swamp. We witches come from the dark lagoon, bubbling and sulfurous." (1 of 3) #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #WitchSky
4/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Sunday
#SwampSunday
#SundaySeashore
#SilentSunday
#Stunday
#FolkloreSunday
#SenryūSunday (or #SenryuSunday)
#SelfPortraitSunday
#SmallPoemSunday
#ShakespeareSunday
4 of 6 #SundayHashtags
Digital image inspiried by this quote from the book "Suwannee River: Strange Green Land" by Cecile Hulse Matschat, published in 1938: ""In the weird, hobgoblin world of the bays there is perpetual twilight... Seeing this malformed forest in the strange green light, one might expect it to be the home of gnomes... As a matter of fact, it is inhabited by much more sinister personalities."
"In the weird, hobgoblin world of the bays there is perpetual twilight... Seeing this malformed forest in the strange green light, one might expect it to be the home of gnomes... As a matter of fact, it is inhabited by much more sinister personalities." #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #SuwaneeRiver
"The Devil went down to Georgia..." - thinking of my baldcypress friend, The May-Day Devil, I met last year. With the slight feeling of spring underneath the surface of the worlds, I'm aching for dark water swamps, rivers, and cypress knees.
"The Devil went down to Georgia..." - thinking of my baldcypress friend, The May-Day Devil, I met last year. With the slight feeling of spring underneath the surface of the worlds, I'm aching for dark water swamps, rivers, and cypress knees. #SwampSunday #SwampWytch #WitchSky
