Here are ten images of a place I love, which I loved even before I was baptized there in 1983. The Rev. "Dutch" Stolz performed the baptism, in the process blessing the river and asking the Spirit of God to descend on me. It was the only full-immersion baptism he ever performed, and the only one I ever received.

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Dick Brown, a Christian lawyer with a background in engineering, writes:

'I have learned that the biological sciences are not free of acronyms. Ornithologists refer to LBJs, which expands to "Little Brown Jobs" -- small and brown being a very common and confusing bird description. In the field of botany, the equivalent is "DYC," which stands for "Damn Yellow Compositae" -- compositae (sp.?) being the largest class of flowers and yellow being the most common color thereof. I believe that the flowers in the photo labeled "Wat oar these yaller flawers?" are one of the many DYCs.

The flowers your wife calls "cardinal flowers" are a type of salvia called, for reasons I do not know, "scarlet cypress." Then, again, they could be "standing cypress,"  also known as "ipomopsis rubra."  See photo and range description at: http://hotx.com/wildflowers/Rpage.html or "scarlet penstemon," a.k.a. "penstemon triflorus." See photo at: http://www.nativesoftexas.com/hcpenst.html or "cardinal flower," a.k.a. "campanulaceae lobelia cardinalis." See photo at: http://www.nativesoftexas.com/cflower.htmlor "cedar sage," a.k.a. "labiatae salvia roemeriana." See photo at http://www.nativesoftexas.com/cedarsag.html Now I'm beginning to remember why I did not become a botanist!'