Searching For Shade

"Heat, ma'am! it was so dreadful here,
that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones."

Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir

Cooling off with a walk in the woods

Shady canopies

Goldenrod in bloom


Wild Blackberry Vines

Tennessee State Wildflower, The Passionflower

Bouncing Bet, Soapwort