The hot, humid days of late summer are slightly more bearable in a leafy Piedmont forest—slightly.
If you’re on the East Coast and traversing the banks of a shaded stream or some other low-lying spot, you’re likely to come across a Southern lady, of the fern variety, that is.
The hardy Southern lady fern is a ubiquitous summer sight in the forests of Georgia and the Carolinas. I found the fern shown here in a patch of woods in Atlanta.
The ferns are deciduous, dropping their leaves in the winter months, so they won’t be lush and green for too much longer.
