Life is Good at Proctor Lake

After leaving the Burnet Bluebonnet Festival, we moved the motor home another two hours north. But we are glad to report that we didn't leave the bluebonnets behind.

Instead, we are finding the best show of wildflowers in all of our travels at our next location.

We are now at Proctor Lake at a Corp of Engineers campground called Sowell Creek. Behind Mark, across that little neck of the lake is our motor home nestled among the trees.

Even though we thought we were here for the lake, we are finding that the thing we are most enjoying are the wildflowers.

The pictures taken throughout this blog are each unique patches of flowers that we found on our hikes and exploration around the lake.

We went on hikes on corp of engineer property, always amazed to find another view of new flowers.

Just like the last corp park, we are finding infrastructure that is no longer in use. This road was closed to vehicles, but made for an easy walking trail.

Again, we are finding picnic tables that haven't been used since this area is no longer open to vehicles. But today these tables are surrounded by bluebonnets and paintbrushes!

In this neglected area of the park, we can see the blue of the wildflowers along the shore as far as we could see.

We are finding that other things are growing along this overgrown road. The sand plums are putting on berries that will ripen to red this summer.

Likewise, the blackberries are blooming now, and this will be a delicious hike this summer.

We continue to hike and explore in different directions from our campground. Finding more and more different fields of flowers.

We just came from Burnet, the self-proclaimed bluebonnet capitol of Texas. But these might be the best bluebonnets we have seen this year.

The Indian paintbrushes are at their peak here, and we are coming to love these unique flowers.

While we usually see the fields of the signature orange flowers, we are finding them in different colors here. We found the occasional yellow paintbrush,

and sometimes we would see rosy-pink paintbrushes beside a red-orange blooming brush.

The different colors make for an amazing bouquet. We have wandered into more of God's wonders at Proctor Lake!

Back at our campground, the winds have kept us from getting our kayak out on the water. So Mark gathered firewood to take advantage of the fire ring and our covered picnic table at our shaded camp site.

A camp fire means that we had smores for dessert that evening.

As the fire burns down, the glowing embers are at their best for toasting marshmallows. Life is good at Proctor Lake!