Life is much better… for a while. We topped out at 19 today with an overnight low of 9°C. The same tomorrow, then up to 23°C on the weekend. with thunderstorms and 2.5″ of rain. I seem to recall a similar forecast for last weekend, let’s see if they do any better this time.
After breakfast we headed out for a combined sightseeing / shopping trip, we were headed to Bellingrath Gardens on the other side of Mobile Bay. On the way there we would pass agonizingly close to JoAnn fabrics, and also Harbor Freight, which is a tool / machine / hardware store. Once we got to JoAnn Fabrics, I bravely elected to stay and look after the car while Lyn went off and did her thing. While sitting in the car I got the GPS out and discovered there were a number of geocaches close by!
Three quarters of a mile walking led me to three caches, I could probably have got a fourth as when I returned to the car Lyn was nowhere to be seen for another 10 minutes.
Harbor Freight was a little quicker as I knew what I wanted, and we found it fairly quickly.
Next we headed south to the gardens, by which time it was time for lunch. I decided not to behave this lunch-time and had a club sandwich and potato chips. Hopefully the 2½ miles walking I did will help burn off some of the indulgence.
Unfortunately the frost we had yesterday had damaged some of the flowers, particularly the roses, but there was still a colourful display around the gardens, with lots of ‘mums.
Below are some pictures we took, unfortunately the map we had didn’t show what the different flowers were, so if recognise any let me know.
Number 1
‘Mums along the water, by the house.
Bananas
Lyn is desperate to see an alligator in the wild, this is the closest thing we saw. The gardens have a light display over the Christmas season, all the paths are lit with Christmas objects, there is also the occasional wildlife created in lights hence the alligator. Unfortunately we won’t be around for the evening openings to see the final light show.
Number 3
We saw this at the side of the road on the way home, I am not sure why it was there, but it looked interesting but not particularly airworthy.
One final stop on the way back was at a liquidation store, normally I find these places full of cheap plastic junk, but this one was more like a hardware store. The merchandise was not particularly top of the line, but it certainly was usable.
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