We are so connected with each other via all the different social media, that it's really hard to accept a sudden and total disconnect as I did this week while camping. I found myself very jealous of the limited connectability that my hubby had, and I would sneak glimpses on his phone to see what was happening with our friends.
As the week progressed, a curious thing happened. I found myself looking less and less at his phone. I wasn't even carrying my phone - I picked up my real camera instead and took pictures. Not just pictures to be posted on Facebook to say "Look what fun I am having", but pictures that had a shape and form that I liked - and that pleased me.
Alan and I did a lot of nothing this week. Lake Hudson State Park is a beautiful spot and I would come back. The campsites are large private. There are massive hedges of shrubs, small trees and branches, separating each site so you can't see your neighbor. The sites are also off-set so you can't see someone directly across the road. Lake Hudson is a "Dark Sky Preserve" and has no exernal lighting - no street lights. No building lights.
Above - camper in the moonlight.
It's also low on ammenities. There are two outhouses (one for each loop) - they are new, but still outhouses. There is one water pump. You know, a hand pump. The only modern ammenity at the campground is electricity. As it was put in the park, it was done thoughtfully - the electric stations are tucked away into paths cut in the brambles so many of them are not seen from the road.
It's very quiet. Very little street noise - only when the breeze is at the right angle. There are very few planes. Even with weekend campers, the park was quiet well before quiet hour.
Aside from the night when the largest storm of the summer came through with rain, thunder, lightening lasting clost to four hours; the weather has been good - perhaps a little too hot and muggy. But that storm! It might have been the second worst storm I have camped in - and I have camped in some bad ones. The thunder and lightening was so fast and furious that it just all rolled together and you didn't know if the thunder was starting or finishing.
But it was a good week. I finished a few UFOs, put away a project that has been frustrating me (I will pick it up later) and started another that I sketched awhile ago.
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| Beki Haley's "Tango" necklace |
