Lazy Sunday Spring Showcase

Another week has drifted past. This time there was no sturm and drang, no truck troubles, no hassles. Denny and I visited the beach, visited an old friend who unfortunately was not feeling well at all, and just enjoyed the fact that spring has arrived in this area.

We're moving out today, heading north and stopping overnight to break up the trip into northern Alabama. Patches will get tossed into the truck two days in a row, which she has come to hate. Being in Ohio for over four month last summer left her with a distaste of travel. We're hoping that the quieter engine in the new truck will ease some of that unhappiness since she reacts badly to loud noises.


In Greek mythology the River Styx was the boundary line between Earth and the underworld. Here in Alabama the Styx River is a shallow, crystal clear, peaceful flow of water bordering the campground. Although we never did see a single fish or living creature in it.


Azaleas. Pinks, whites, peaches, vivid fuschias in huge mounds in yards everywhere we drove. I love the untamed, untrimmed bushes that seem to burble out of the ground in great fountains of bloom.


Snowy white dogwood trees came into bloom while we were here, the perfect counterpoint to the lush color of the azaleas.


Trees are putting out new leaves and the different shades of green create a patchwork quilt of color as Patches and I walk each day.


The neighbor provided a bit of color also as this macaw sat quietly on this young man's shoulder outside his RV. We never heard a peep from the bird the whole time they were here, which is surprising because these critters can be very loud when they screech.


Springtime also is a time of new birth as these nesting ospreys show.


The trees are budding, the birds are singing, but these old abandoned amusement park figures just slowly fade away. They are leftovers from the now closed Water World water park next door to our campground.


Denny tries his hand at cow tipping. I absolutely could not resist that one.