Magnolia Graniflora

The Southern Magnolia, or Magnolia grandiflora must be one of the most photographed blooms on the planet... And with good reason.   It is simply hard to imagine anything that big, and floppy and elegant.  The petals remind me of Chinese soup ladels.

All pics, t(c) Kirk Jorand and taken on the morning of May 12, 2010. For more variety, from years past check our my sister site, ID Arkansas, with a co-special on this startling bloom.

The Mighty Works Project exists to run wonder into the ground... if only wonder would submit, but it has a way of refusing.

Overview

Looks like Mold on gelatin, but its not.

It's a Lake, substantially above norm.






Re-Forestation








Receding flood-waters.





Oxbow marsh and woods formed by a decades (or centuries) earlier course in the river. An Oxbow is formed when the river cuts a shorter path in a looping curve, then leaves a big "C" shaped mini-lake.

Buttercups

Rice Terraces, groomed by tractor and ready for planting. (Arkansas is the number-one rice producing state in the Union)

Rice, Wheat, and water

Some kind of aquaculture. Not sure what.

Overview

All Pics, May 5, 2008 Arkansas, mostly the Delta. As part of my job for the State of Arkansas, I am sometimes taken to photograph storm damage.

These pictures are not of the damage (except perhaps, the left-over flooding.) I took these pictures while in transit to our destination sites.

For more on the landing see:

http://governor.arkansas.gov/newsroom/gallery.php?do:showPhotoList=1&gallery_id=265

The Mighty Works Project exists to affirm that God causes it to rain on the just and the unjust, even as he ordains winds of sifting, to shake both great and small.