The birds were out in force this morning, all happily singing except for the single cardinal female who is obsessed with smashing her head into our living room window. We tried spooking her away through a couple of ineffective strategies until Peggy put a print scarf up in the window and turned a fan onto it to make it wiggle. The female cardinal crashes diminished somewhat but she is dedicated so we still get occasional thuds.
Today we took a drive clockwise around the Toledo Bend Reservoir. Leaving the campground, we passed through a couple of miles of Louisiana before heading back into Texas where we followed the west edge of the lake as far as Milam. Most of the road passes through the Sabine National Forest but there seem to be little enclaves of crummy private residences spread along the lake shore. Apparently, all old single-wide trailer houses come here to die and we spotted a lot of them. Once in a while, we would see really nice Texas estates but around the lake they were pretty rare. We did spot some amazing azaleas in full bloom, masses of small flying insects impacting on our windshield and a place that sold armadillo eggs (what do you do with them?).
At Milan, we crossed the lake on a very long causeway to return to Louisiana. We returned to our campsite down the east side of the lake and, since we covered that yesterday, I’ll dummy up.
We did get a few pix. Check ’em out by clicking here