Here is my Japanese Lantern poem. Inspired by Jane at Just Another Nature Enthusiast (see link below).
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Yes
Smile
Positive
Simple pleasures
Yea
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Yes
One evening last week, I captured the sun setting behind this tree. The branches form the letter Y. So as it usually goes, I wake up with words in my head. I remembered reading Jane’s post about Japanese Lantern poetry form.
~Here are the rules as posted by Jane on her blog ` Jane
A five-line, eleven-syllable shape poem take the form of a Japanese lantern.
Line 1: one syllable (usually the topic and a noun)
Line 2: two syllables about the topic
Line 3: three syllables about the topic
Line 4: four syllables about the topic
Line 5: one syllable (synonym of or related to the first line)
Say yes instead of no when you can, always offer a smile, be positive, enjoy simple pleasures and all things in nature.
We were sitting at the dining table in the RV, at Lake Colorado City State Park, drinking hot chocolate. The day was cold, cloudy and very windy keeping up mostly inside. Kloudy alerted us to the fact that something was in the area. Looking out the window we spotted a covey of Northern Bobwhites.
I scrambled to get my camera to take some photos. These are not the best quality shots, but I enjoyed seeing this group.
This is the closest I have ever been to a covey of Northern Bobwhites and the most I have ever seen at one time.
Northern BobwhiteSite 63, Lake Colorado City State ParkAll alone, but not lonely.
We spent two nights at Lake Colorado City State Park, waiting out the snowy weather in Colorado.
Instead of heading to Amarillo and spending our time in a private RV park, we chose to stay another day in this lovely Texas State Park, observing nature without neighbors.
This was our second visit to Lake Colorado City State Park.
Our visit to the Texas Hill Country and the Buckhorn Lake Resort…
Kerrville, Texas, located in the heart of the Texas Hill Country is a picturesque place, and one of our favorite cities to visit while traveling along I10.
The Buckhorn Lake Resort is one of our favorite private parks. The Buckhorn is unique in that it offers travelers many choices of RV sites: back-in sites along grassy fields, pull-throughs in the interior of the park, pull-ins with a view of beautiful Goat Creek, an area for adults only, and privately owned Casitas with RV parking. They have rental cabins, a huge barn where entertainment and dining are offered, meeting rooms, two bath houses with hot tubs and pools, an exercise room, a doggie park, a tennis court, basketball goals, four Pickleball Courts (new), and an outside meeting place for happy hour. They also offer scheduled events and bus transportation to many of the attractions in the area – Bandara, Fredericksburg, San Antonio plus many others.
I am sure I have missed something. If interested go to their web-site and have a peek at this beautiful RV park – Buckhorn Lake Resort. They truly have earned the “Resort” in their name.
When you enter the park there is a lot of room to stop for registering or hooking-up when leaving. The registration office below.
This huge windmill sits in the middle of a circle as you enter just below the office.
View of a bath house, pool, Red Barn, rental cabins and gathering place for happy hour.
Red Barn, grounds with a dog park behind
Meeting place outside the Red Barn
Old Red Tractor wits along side the Red Barn
Rental Cabins
One of two bath houses with hot tub and pool.
A view of the Casitas. These were built during phase three. The ones below this photo were built during phase one. You can see as time passed the Casitas got larger.
Beautiful Hill Country stone, which everything is build with in the park. Another view of the Casitas below.
Beautiful Hill Country stone
Pickleball Courts on the right.
Casita’s with RV parking
Look close, in the middle of the photo below and you can just spot our coach.
View of the Casita and RV Park from a hill.Casitas on the right and some of the pull-in RV sites on the left.
Fishing Pond, edge of exercise room deck. Our site, located two sites down from the jeep above.Bridge and GazeboGazebo at night.
We spend three nights at the Buckhorn this trip, and enjoyed each day. We have traveled from Kerrville to Lake Colorado City State Park.
Leaving Copper Breaks State Park we traveled on state highways under cloudy skies to Cooper Lake State Park. It was a nice ride. We drove through small towns and in between, as far as the eye could see, hilly, pastoral, acres filled with cattle and horses.
White rail fences and cleverly designed entryways surrounded huge ranch houses proudly displaying their ranch name, something like the Lazy R Ranch, dotted the landscape. Some of these ranches had even larger Show Horse Barns. Gorgeous!
Unfortunately, we were at Cooper Lake State Park for only one night. Under cloudy skies we walked around some of the park and what we saw we liked. We felt we were the only campers in the park, which is filled with lots of trees and scrubs. This park is also designated as a Dark Skies park and believe me it was dark. Just after our walk it began raining and it poured all night.
Monday, We traveled in the rain……
Again choosing to travel down the back roads we made our way to Boyce, Louisiana. We drove through eye pleasing towns with American flags proudly flying, beautiful murals covering the sides of buildings, and well taken care of landscaped city parks on corners.
Every once in a while a truck would pass us with deer legs sticking out of truck beds. Not cute. Hunting season is in full force.
We are stopped tonight in a town near Alexandria, Louisiana, called Boyce at River Cities RV Park.
They are very efficient, I called them on the phone this morning to make a reservation, they sent me a text with the security gate code and our site number, we pulled in, entered the gate code, drove to our site and settled in for the evening. Perfect! But, still raining.
We are heading to Madisonville, Louisiana to visit with friends for two days, then to visit family in Purvis, Mississippi. While in Madisonville we plan to indulge in greatly missed, delicious, cajun food! Grilled Oysters on a half-shell with butter and parmesan cheese just to mention one. C’est Si Bon!
You just have to go with what you are given and that is what we did, several walks around Copper Breaks State Park with the doggies for a total of 4.5 miles.
During our walks we saw some interesting sights….
It was early evening when we saw this fellow hunting bugs in the grass.
Roadrunner – Beep, Beep
A Texas Longhorn from the herd at Copper Breaks.
Texas Longhorn
Perhaps it is the vintage look of these Windmills that I like so much.
Windmill Pump
Well past its blooming season, but still lovely with a splash of color.
Dry arid land
It is always interesting to walk along a river bank. The Pease River, a tributary of the Red River which runs through West Texas, meanders its way through Copper Breaks State Park.
Pease River in Copper Breaks State Park
Tall reeds, protection for wildlife.
Grasses surrounding a pond
One of the small ponds in the park.
A small pond
Now for the fun part ` seeing the Texas Longhorns at Copper Breaks.
A little Texas Longhorn
If you are interested you may read about these handsome fellows by clicking on this link Longhorns
“What you looking at sister?”
The end of our day, enjoyed and treasured.
Looking forward to what tomorrow will bring. We will be on our way to Cooper Lakes State Park.
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