Yesterday it rained cats and dogs and we never left our trailer. The total rainfall at the nearest weather station for yesterday was a bit more than 2 inches. We let the ducks ands geese have the entire outdoors during the storm.
This morning the weather was better with periodic light rain and overcast skies. Before we departed Amanda and her dog, Donna, stopped by our trailer for a chat. We initially met these two at the Thousand Trails campground in Columbus, Texas, about 5 or 6 weeks ago and were surprised when we saw her here. Her dog is extremely vigorous and stayed very busy investigating in our trailer.
We decided to make a trip back into Mississippi today, specifically to Holly Springs. Holly Springs is both a town where Rust College, which neither of us has ever heard of and a National Forest is located just south of the TN/MS border. There are many fine old houses there.
In this area, the tree-strangling, invasive kudzu plant runs rampant, killing everything it touches. Some bozo introduced kudzu to this area for erosion control but it backfired, stripping large expanses of land of all vegetation and actually making the erosion problem worse. We spotted a lot of acreage where nothing is left other than real skinny sticks, a few logs too small to harvest and the effects of severe erosion – exposed brown soil and very steep gullies. However, all the places unaffected by kudzu are covered with abundant wildflowers and very pretty.
We wandered through the Holly Springs National Forest and noted there is a nice lake, a very pretty but almost unoccupied campground and more kudzu. Apparently, even the Feds are unable to stop this foul flora.
Along our way, we spotted many beautiful rural estates mixed in with the Dogpatch-like residences of poor hoarders. The contrast is stark.
See today’s pix. Click here