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| Weekend Coffee Share |
Hello there Adventurous Friends & Family, greetings from Georgia. How you doing this 6th week of 2024? It's 51 degrees out this Saturday morning with a 60 percent chance of rain this evening about suppertime. We went on a good camping trip this week. We watched several beautiful sunrises & several beautiful sunsets. We saw lots of wildlife especially armadillos. Kevin enjoys being the camp cook therefore that makes my enjoyment of camping a lot greater. We camped in an area where cotton grows & spanish moss thrives. There were lots of pine trees that produce huge pinecones. We saw several things we'd not ever seen before while out exploring. Kevin did a little squirrel hunting, we both did some fishing. We didn't get any meat for the frying pan as we had hoped & kinda planned for. The fish had size limits that we didn't reach. We gave it several good attempts at catching a trophy size largemouth bass over 24 inches. The squirrels stayed hid while hunting but we saw several while out riding around site seeing. Today I'm working on putting away the camping stuff, but 1st, grab a coffee or your favorite beverage & I'll tell you about a few more of the things we did & saw while out camping, walk with me.
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| We set up camp in the designated campground overlooking the lake. The camp area was dispersed, if you need it you had to bring it. We brought wood along to have a campfire or 2. We were too busy & ended up never even building up a fire in the firepit, the little pile of rocks you see there. It rained the 1st day, so the awning we added came in handy. |
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| There were firebreaks all over the place that made good walking trails. |
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| We were surprised to discover that there were flowers in bloom. I asked Siri & this is sweet smelling Carolina Jessamine. It's vine stays leafed out green all year long. These pretty little yellow flowers were everywhere out in the woods. |
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| This is a place where paper comes from. It was interesting to see these longleaf pine trees in their different stages of growth. |
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| The biggest bed of palmettos we saw while out walking. |
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| Kevin spied this lion's mane mushroom. According to Siri, it's edible. |
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| This sign was posted at all the boat ramps & fishing docks. We sited 5 gators sunning & swimming out in the water while fishing. We watched the gators through binoculars & wasn't ever close enough to get a picture, thank goodness. Siri said gators are not aggressive unless provoked. |
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| Spanish moss hanging in the trees. According to Siri, the moss lives off the air for it's food & moisture not the trees. |
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| This memorial was marked on the map, but it wasn't pinpointed to it's exact location. We wondered what it was all about. We came across the memorial one day while walking one of the firebreak trails. We saw several woodpeckers in the area during our visit & assumed they were the red-cockaded woodpeckers that this memorial tells about providing the habitat management for. |
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| I spied this upside down carrot. According to Siri, its called stinkhorn mushroom. It's hollow on the inside. |
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| I spied this different shape of stinkhorn mushroom. I didn't attempt to smell these to see if they stunk. I usually don't go around smelling mushrooms anyways. I'm always afraid I'll ingest some of their poisonous spores if they were to have any. |
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| Rose soaking up some sun during a picnic. |
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| Exploring the cypress knees. According to Siri, the knee's purpose is to perhaps help the roots get air due to their swampy habitat & might help with erosion among several other possible things. Seems it's really unknown what the knees purpose really is for. |
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| Mickey & Mini hanging out at camp in a tree that has ferns going on it. |
These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how has your week been?
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