Swamps of Texas

Here's a photo of a cypress forest in eastern Texas, at Big Thicket National Preserve, taken just a few days ago. It's called a bayou, in this case it's called Little Pine Island Bayou -- which is a slow moving creek, that with a good dose of rain, rises up and overflows into the floodplain. And when it rises, watch out! Flood stage can rise ten feet, even higher, during those peak rainfall events.