I’m not sure about my project this year. I have a lot of questions I’m working out. I think it’s a photo book project. The first phase is collecting photos from my stay at Magnolia Branch Wildlife Reserve.
Here are a few from the flooding February 4th.
The road was flooded for a quarter mile or so. It was more than a foot deep around the curve. I didn’t take a picture there because I did not want to stop. I think I was off the road several times. Water leaked into the jeep. You can just see the yellow rails of the platform above the water at the bottom of the staircase. Normally that platform is 10 feet above the water. The day before I walked past that green sign 50’ or more down to the Big Escambia Creek. Not this day. The big, wide beach eroded and was still partially under water. I didn’t go there while it was mostly under water.
QOTD: “To achieve what the Zen Buddhists call “beginner’s mind,” you dispense with all preconceptions and enter each situation as if seeing it for the first time. “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities,” wrote Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki. “but in the expert’s there are few.”
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QOTD: “I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.” ~ Alan Watts
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BBQ Shrimp and Mango SlawWe were feeding the turtles
Embrace the paradox of “tragically human” and“hilariously divine” as both equally and simultaneously true. Borrowed from Carolyn Elliot
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QOTD: “Maybe you’re better than you think you are at gliding, flowing, leaping, skipping, twirling, undulating, reverberating, galloping, and rub-a-dub-dubbing.” ~ Rob Brezsny
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I walk almost every morning. It’s great to walk at Lay Lake. I’m in an area that isn’t too built up and there is still a lot of nature left.
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An outlaw, I hope. A warrior ready to romance the unknown with the creative and resilient expression of your soul.
If you want to walk on water, sink your ships and burn your bridges. If you want to live an extraordinary life, get rid of your Plan B and start acting like Plan A is your only option.
Plan A is terrifying and excruciating, yes. No ground in sight when you first jump, but that’s when creativity can operate most freely and build you homes (and hope) on your way down.
⁃Andrea Balt
Magnolia Branch Wildlife Preserve Atmore AL. Taken with an iPhone 7 Plus
A short walk from the RV, at the top of the putt putt golf course, there is a bubbling fountain. Just before dark one evening I walked up there and took these four pictures. I could have stood there a long time. No two images are the same.
Jesse loved the water and the fish. The Koi were hoping he had some food. I was hoping he didn’t fall in the pool. He didn’t.
His favorite at the Insectarium is the Love Bugs. The windshield has a projection of a road and landscape. He loved driving through it. He remembered it from our last trip. This time he played and played there. When other children came along he got out and let them have a turn. No prompting. We weren’t in a hurry and eventually he had enough and we wandered/wondered to the next thing.
Oddly, a New Orleans butterfly garden is not complete without some alligators.
Talk about excellent marketing. You can’t exit these places without passing through the gift shop. rofl
Christy and Jesse shopping for souvenirs.
Back Story
Christy, Jesse, and I took the Amtrak Crescent from the train depot in Anniston AL to New Orleans for a week of adventure and photography. This train station is a classical revival depot and is listed in the National Registry of Historical Places. Jesse loves to ride the train. Heck, we all love to ride the train. We left August 8, 2013 and returned August 14th. Unfortunately Jeremy couldn’t go this time. He had to work.
Christy’s father was kind enough to drive us to the train station and pick us up so we wouldn’t have to leave a vehicle parked there for a week.
We stayed at our usual place, the historic 905 Royal Hotel in the French Quarter. The 905 Royal was built in the late 1890’s.
We were all excited, but nothing compares to the excitement of a child.
Christy and Jesse shared some really fun mother and son time. Of course you can’t suppress an addicted photographer. She got some good shots of Jesse while they were playing.
We had a nice picnic lunch. Christy packed juice, Mountain Dew, Corona, Pringles, chipolata spread, and sandwiches. Yummy! We had to eat in shifts. One ate while the other played in the creek with Jesse. FUN!
One of the coolest parts of visiting here is all the butterflies. We saw so many: big, little, yellow, black, and blue. They are almost always there except in the coldest parts of winter.
Adventures morph into new adventures. We headed home to hook up with Jeremy and have a delicious Christy made dinner: rotisserie chicken, mashed potatoes, and salad.
My Eclectic Life 