While walking around the woods here at Stephen F. Austin State Park, we found wild blackberries and several white tailed deer. We hadn’t seen any deer in the piney woods forests we have camped in previously, not even the smaller mule deer. This doe calmly nursed her fawn while keeping a wary eye out for the silly humans with camera phones.
The RV / travel trailer camp sites are drive-through (no backing into the space!) and set far enough from each other that each site feels private. The grass is kept mown in a semi-circle at each site (there are venomous snakes here) but left to grow tall between sites under the trees. Gives a feeling of being all by ourselves as we relax under the awning looking off into the forest. And watching lightning bugs! We haven’t seen them since leaving Kansas.
What a lovely page, Vicky :)
ReplyDeleteYou go to campsites quite often and your natural areas seem to be quite wild! Alligators on your trip, now venomous snakes... um... Lightning bugs are beautiful. I have seen them 30 years ago. We call them flies of St. John.
We went in with our daughter and son-in-law to purchase this small used travel trailer last year, and are taking full advantage of the low senior rates of local camp grounds! All of these wild areas are within an hour's drive of our home here in Texas.
DeleteWe have not actually seen any snakes while camping but Bill killed a young coral snake at home. Snakes are a part of life in Texas but we rarely see them.
In Kansas, we also called lightning bugs "fire flies". I love your name for them!