Keep flourishing USofA

Nature's showy beauty.  All across the nation, it's inspiring looking at all the regional flowering plants and trees, comparing their beauty to that of what's found even two states over.  During the year 2000, in mid June, I moved from an already "brown" Texas to a rather plush tropical Hawaii.  The Texas bluebonnets had already had their spring showing, and moved aside for the more earth-tones of typical summer landscaping.  The transformation of browns to greens over the period of an 8 hour flight was amazing!  And now in 2005, I make a similar move, but in reverse.  Not wishing to do harm to mother natures reputation of flourishing our great nation, I present you some of the more showy plants from across the nation 2005.

       

First on display is the Hibiscus, this one found in at the Hilo International Airport, BEGGING me to photograph it!    

 
 

Next, (below) finding our way to the desert region, Alamogordo, New Mexico specifically, we caught glimpse of this prickly pear cactus flaunting its goods at us.   

      

 

 

Furthering our mission to reach the eastcoast in record time, we zoom on toward Arkansas and find these lilies covering a good many ponds and rivershores.

 

 

 

 

 

 

By the time we finally reached our ultimate destination, the flowers were beginning to lose their lust for color, yet I still managed to stumble across this well manicured (cabbage) patch along the Canadian border in New York!