Sunday, December 2, 2018

We spent Thanksgiving with Dennis' brother's family in Memphis, TN. After leaving Memphis we visited the Natchez Trace National Parkway (a 440 mile pastoral roadway from Natchez, MS to Nashville, TN) and then drove across Louisiana and east Texas to home.




Great Blue Heron above Wright-Patman Lake near Texarkana, TX


A European Starling in Memphis


Late season bloom in Memphis


Leaves, at dawn, in Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park. On the Mississippi River north of Memphis.


Mike at our campsite in Meeman-Shelby Forest


The forest in early morning light


Squirrel in a bird feeder in Carol and David's backyard.


Autumn leaves in Memphis


All of us at lunch, at The Beauty Shop, the day after Thanksgiving:  David, Dennis, Mike, Carol, and Becca. 


Our campsite at Tishomingo State Park, along the Natchez Trace in Mississippi.


Other campers at Tishomingo SP


Christmas canoe decorations at Tishomingo SP


Bears are real. But this one is not. Tishomingo SP.


Swinging Bridge, Tishomingo SP.


Another bear at Tishomingo SP. All dressed up for the holidays.


Us on a cold morning in Mississippi.


Country along the Natchez Trace Parkway.


The largest mushroom we have ever seen.


Confederate soldiers' graves in the woods along the Natchez Trace. All unknown. All fallen in an unknown battle in 1862.


A creek side mill house in Tishomingo SP.





Holiday decorations.


Cypress and Tupelo trees in a swamp beside the Parkway.





Great Blue Heron on the Pearl River, Mississippi.


A Great Egret in the woods, also at the Pearl River.


Unknown Object for sale - Kaffie-Frederickson General Mercantile in Natchitoches, LA, Louisiana's oldest general store.


Dennis at the front window of the Mercantile.


Skylight, with umbrellas, between the first and second story of the Mercantile.


Sunset at Sam Reservoir, Hanks Creek Campground, near Lufkin, TX


Sunrise at Sam Reservoir, Hanks Creek Campground.



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