Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Your Neck of the Woods 2015 Part 3, 3 by HollyAnnS

HollyAnnS wrote:
Ric and I did a little exploring today traveled over to the Deland area about a 1/2 hour or so drive inland. We went to visit Barbersville Roadside it has a lot of the Mexican pottery that I like. The pottery is pretty pricey and I just couldn't find anything that I liked enough to fork over the BIG $$. From there we visited a couple of State Parks and Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge we had a great time there bird watching and enjoying the 3 mile hike around some smaller mash areas and down one side of the very large lake. I posted the bird pics over in the Birding thread but thought I would post a few of the area. We hiked thru, as we first arrived at the Refuge there were Cypress Swaps on either side of the road just beautiful, there were a lot of small ponds and canals with a wide mowed trail (wide enough to drive on) that treked all over the area. We picked the smaller 3 mile trek that would take us to the Observation Tower at one side of the very very large lake. We found MayPops (passionflower) growing along the trail at one spot and several huge live oaks. Just about the time we got to the Observation Tower it started to rain pretty hard but we didn't get very wet. Pics are all out of sequence but you can pretty much tell what is what.