Pursued 04/04/19

Reed Bingham State Park, Adel, Georgia

Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?  . . . .You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. ~  Luke 6:41-42

I don’t have much to say today.  Call it writer’s block. Hey. It happens to the best of us.

Mid-morning, we rode down the street to the same boardwalk path we biked the other day.  This time, we walked it.  Yep.  The exact same trail.  The closed trail.  Technically, we were coming from the same direction again, so technically, we don’t know it’s closed.  😊

There’s something we’ve never seen on a trail before! : )
Keep in mind . . . this is a ‘no wake’ zone.
This guy was flying through here!
Look how much growth so far this Spring!
Yeah. There’s a sign this time . . . But there’s no barricade! : )
Here’s what’s back here. We could hear – – and smell – – cows. But we couldn’t see any.
Same area.
This shows the place I had trouble on yesterday.
We came down this hill on our bikes!
There’s this too . . . .
Evidence we were biking here yesterday.
This area is the best-smelling area of the Park!
There are lots of these “honeysuckle” azaleas here!
The next three pictures show the life of these flowers!
God is sooooo incredible!
Spectacular!
These are the only flowers we saw on this path – and they’re not pitcher plants.
Maybe the wrong time of year?
Tapping pine trees for sap to make turpentine. These next few were taken at an information board at this this trailhead.
I can’t believe they cleared a ton of established slash pines in order to plant longleaf pines.
We don’t understand why.
The two pines look pretty much the same to us. . . .
This picture shows the early stage of a longleaf pine.
This is called the grass stage, for obvious reasons.
Can you believe these tall trees start out like this?
This one’s about five-feet tall.
A close up of that five-foot tree.
Hey! That’s our home!! Right here along the trail!
We found a baby longleaf!
And a shortcut home. : )

After the walk, we rode our bikes around the Park’s lake and down a road to just outside the Park.  We tried out a dirt/sand road, but it was kinda tough.  We kept sliding around on the softer parts.

Riding around the lake.
Ewww! Look what Blaine picked up!
We parked our bikes here and walked over that bridge to this very small island.
There were a few people enjoying it.
No alligators today
Blaine’s trying to get close enough to get a picture of the car that’s here.
Wow. This is alongside the road we were on, just outside the Park.
This is as close as he could safely get. There was lumber, metal and ground cover everywhere.
My attempt at creative photography . . . Not great.
There are lots of fields like this around here.
We think some of them are growing cabbage, and others, sod.
I couldn’t get a good picture of this house,
but the roof was full of holes and the walls were falling in.

We were back home by 1:30pm. 

Right around 3:30, we started getting ants in our pants, so Blaine suggested a Jeep tour of some back roads.  We saw a lot of dilapidated houses and out buildings.  Two dogs tried to tackle us and one managed to snarl and bark right alongside us, so close, I was certain we’d hit him!  Fortunately, we were able to get away!  Oh.  And the owner was there watching the whole thing passively.  He’s either looking to file a law suit or hoping someone exterminates the beast for him.

We’re Jeepin’!
The coloring’s a little off.
I think it’s because I was taking pictures through the windows most of the time.
I tried to find out what this is. I wasn’t successful.
It’s sad to me to think that these were once loved homes someone went to a lot of effort to build . . .
Irrigating the cabbage.
Here comes one of the doggies!
We got away from this one.
A little further up the road was the close call.
There were a couple of nicer homes along our journey. : )

After dinner, we took a short walk and checked out two of the tortoises who were finally out of their hiddy- holes!

Hey! Look who’s up! This is the one in our backyard.
He never emerged more than this.
This one’s further away from us, by a cut down tree stump.
When we first came upon him, he was flipping dirt and bouncing his head up and down.
Of course he stopped as soon as I turned the video on . . .
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