Reed Bingham State Park

 I'm linking this post to Friday Fences.  Two fence pictures... over the river and through the woods :-)  I am also linking to Skywatch Friday.  Please visit this two sites and enjoy wonderful photos.

Last month we went to Reed Bingham State Park which is near Adel Georgia and not far from Valdosta where our son and his family live.

The Little River runs by part of the walking trail.  We took our fishing gear down to a pier and played with the tiny fish for a bit.  Bait snatchers is what they were.

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Reed Bingham State Park strives to preserve the wildlife that lives within its boundaries.  This is a nesting box, I think for ducks.   There are also turkey vultures that nest along the river and a pair of eagles.  I have not seen the eagles yet. 

It was quiet and peaceful here.  I just wanted to cloud watch.

 With Halloween looming  the moss looked spooky, but beautiful.

 It was beautiful along the boardwalk too.  

There were many orchard spider webs amongst the rails.

But unfortunately the webs do not show in the photos.

 Fungi was abundant.
I'm not sure if that is a good thing or not.  

It is pretty though.

 These leaves were lying on the rail... just looking pretty to me.

The park grows long-leaf pine trees too.  

At one time they were abundant in Georgia.  

They were severely harvested and almost totally lost for all time. 

 

 Here is a planted stand about halfway 

between the walking trails and the campground.  

It took the trees many years to get this tall.

 

This fungi was in the campground area.  

I have never seen any quite like this before.  

 

I can almost see a face within it :-)  

Where the blue blob is in the photo on the right 

just above my name is where our campsite was.

Gender Party and Camping Out in the RV

We took a short vacation to Reed Bingham State Park and visited with our son and his family.

One day I got to go to the doctor with our son and daughter-in-law and watch as an ultrasound was done.  I had never seen one take place in person before... it was awesome watching the heart beat and the legs and arms flail about.

That evening was a Gender Party.  We are very dumb about what we see in the ultrasound, but pretty sure my feelings and Frank's were right-on... the feelings had been there since we knew a baby was on its way and we were correct :)

The hostess made two cakes. One had a blue-colored layer and the other had a pink-colored layer. The one sliced was the gender of the baby. The hostess made the layers ahead of time and froze them. On the day the gender of the baby was revealed she decorated the cakes. The tec after the ultrasound wrote the gender of the baby down and put it in an envelope... so the couple did not know the gender until the party. The hostess was waiting in the parking lot anxiously awaiting the envelope.


It is a girl!!!  Her name will be Carly Zaroga.  I am honored that she shares part of my name.  She is due the first part of March.  We are so excited!

 

Do you see the dill pickles wrapped in cream cheese and ham by the bag with the owl?  They were good.  I need to ask Laura how she made them.

Here is the happy couple, Dave and Laura.  The boy in the chair is the hostess's son, Cody.

The next Friday Mary and her friend Haley (hostess's daughter) came and spent the night with us in the travel trailer.    We did a haunted hayride and the haunted house.  The hayride was scary, but not as scary as the haunted house.   Frank and I were not too crazy about being that close to the strobe lights in the haunted house.  I think the girls weren't either.  They shivered just about the whole time in the haunted house.  Fortunately, no nightmares that night.

Saturday morning was jamb-packed with bike riding, pumpkin carving, putt putt and the playground.  Laura and Dave came out and we had a great lunch.  They took the girls back with them... whew!... one can only take so much of an almost 8 year old and an 8 1/2 year old.  After church Sunday they returned and brought us a nice lunch from Publix.  The girls rode their bikes and played at the playground.

Monday we did nothing... just needed to rest.  Well we did small walks around the campground and read and most importantly napped. 

Tuesday we took a walk to the river and tried our hand at fishing... nothing but minnows stealing worms.  I took a few pictures and maybe soon I will have time to look at them and post a few. 

Wednesday we cam home and I started on the mounds of laundry... still working on that.

We went to the doctor on Thursday.  My back is giving me a bit of trouble.  Hopefully it is just fussing a bit.  The doctor said we are treating it as inflammation right now... which meant a Toradol injection.  Hopefully within a few days my back will feel better.

We really did have a great time... we did not miss the internet much ;)