This is a lovely little water lily in the Honey Island swamp, just a couple of miles from the Mississippi border. I snapped this picture on the first of the two swamp tours I took.
I had a very mistaken idea at first of how to go about photographing the swamps and bayous. The reading I had done suggested (I thought) that I could just drive around on back roads in swamp country and get plenty of good views. That turned out not to be the case. To really see the swamps you have to take the swamp tours, but of course I had made no reservations for any of the tours. Luckily, I managed to squeeze myself in at the last minute a couple of times, and my vacation was saved.
As a native of Louisiana, I'm greatly enjoying the photos you've been posting of my home state. Thank you for sharing your photographic gifts with your readers.
Douglas LeBlanc
Now living on Johns Island, South Carolina
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/nov/10/cats-track-their-owners-movements-research-finds …
"...when 50 domestic cats were individually shut inside a room..."
Why didn't they just put them all in at once?
That's spatterdock, also known as yellow water-lily. Its flowers stay small and only partially open, never attaining the spectacular blooms of its cousins.
the seminoles had a saying: the white man will leave florida when spatterdock opens up. of course they knew it never does.
Maybe a dandelion by just another name...
Two words I didn't know went together: Swamp Tour