March 27, 2010 Azalea Trail 10K Run, Mobile, Alabama

Here we are at the start: Nannie, brother Rob, sister Ruthie and her husband Jimmy. Brother Rob is the tall geeky one. I'm the cute one in pink. Ruthie and Jimmy are the other two.....












The folks on course of the ATR are always interesting. The belly dancers show up every year, and on the major turns of the course we are graced with the presence of the Azalea Trail Maids. I always ask to see their shoes, and they are happy to show them.... After the race we spent some time at the race Expo.

At the race Expo.

March 25-29, 2010 Meaher State Park, Mobile Bay Causeway, Alabama

Meaher State Park is right on Mobile Bay, on the old causeway. Thru traffic uses the I-10 Bayway, but the causeway is still functional and has much less traffic. It also includes some very good seafood restaurants.

Getting set up and settled in for a few days.

Interesting boardwalk out into a small island in the bay; I bet when the weather warms up there will be plenty of creatures to observe. Downtown Mobile on the other side of the bay.

Huge T-shaped fishing pier from the campground into the bay (Bubba talking with a fisherman); view of the campground from the pier; sunset.

Family foolishness in our camper!

March 10, 2010: New Camper!

Here is our new camper, a Bullet by Keystone. We saw it at an RV show and liked it so much we put money down to hold it. Turns out the RV dealer is the same one we've already been dealing with, so that's a plus. Most of these pictures are self-explanatory.











It has what's called a mini-slideout, which means it only slides out about 1.5 feet, instead of the usual 2-3 feet. The slideout includes the sofa and the kitchen.

Feb. 12, 2010 Snow, AGAIN!!

Two snowfalls in one winter? Amazing! This was only an inch or two, and the minute it stopped snowing it all began to melt. Snowed from 6 a.m. until 10 a.m., and all snow was gone by noon. The snowflakes were more like small wet clumps of snow. Mighty pretty while it's coming down, though!

Jan. 27, 2010 Tammany Trace Rail-Trail bike ride

We drove to Fontainebleau State Park (near Mandeville) and parked there. Our bike ride was from the park to the newly-opened bridge over Bayou Lacombe. For many years, it was a railroad bridge that was permanently open to water traffic and the bike trail stopped at the bridge. They finally renovated it into a lift bridge for the larger watercraft that pass by. (yay!) It was a fine sight to see, that brand new bridge for bicycles!

Here we are at Fontainebleau; the dead liveoak with a twist, been there forever; and as we get rolling on the trail, we see this boat which has had better days.

Fine-looking biker-dude! View of new bridge. Fisherman just below bridge who was happy to chat while he caught crappies (sac-a-lait).

Ancient, majestic liveoaks at the park, full of graceful spanish moss. Plus we had a full moon to peek at all afternoon.

After the ride, these are the bikes on the rack. As a bonus, I got a picture of a great horned owl (thanks to a serious cameraman who I followed...). Sunset on Lake Pontchartrain from Rips on the Lake, where we had supper.