North Dakota

Here we are back on Lake Audubon in North Dakota. We stayed here for a few weeks last year and enjoyed the area. The two photos above are taken from me standing just inside the step looking out to the water. The top photo is looking a bit to the left, and the bottom photo is looking straight out. When I am sitting at the computer my view is the bottom photo and more water to the left. Very peaceful. The weather has been lovely for the two days we have been here - warm sunny days (today 26C) and cool nights (tonight 16C). A few thunderstorms are predicted for later in the week though.

There is some nice wildlife around the park - robin red breasts, striped ground squirrels, Canada geese and cottontail rabbits. On the road into the nearby town we saw some pheasants this morning, and if we delayed our evening walk and took it after dark, it should just about be time for the fireflies to be flitting out and about. I bought some firewood today, and have some marshmallows ready to toast. Each campsite has a fireplace which has a grill above it if you want to cook outside. We prefer to cook on our Baby Weber. We don't often have a fire, but when we do, we would usually light one after dinner and sit there with a glass of red and some peanuts in the shell; for a change we will toast marshmallows. Dick & Jan taught us how to make s'mores when we camped together in Kentucky last year, but for now we will just stick with the minimalist approach and just have the marshmallows on their own.