Each season brings its own pallette to Greensprings Interpretive Trail.
Yes, the heat and humidity have returned with heat indices rising into the triple digits, but so has the peak season for crepe myrtles.
I'm keeping an eye out for the "smoke." :-) The flowers, it's said, are clustered in a large open terminal panicles with a fluffy grayish-buff appearance resembling a cloud of smoke over the plant, from which the name derives.