Lake Martin: Sunsets and Gators

Lake Martin, Louisiana. Sunset, March 2015.

Superficially, Lake Martin is unprepossessing. But as you look closer, with every visit, you see something new and something alluring:

Lake Martin: Thistle

Lake Martin: In Lotus Bloom

Lake Martin: Late Summer, #1

Lake Martin, Late Summer, #2

Lake Martin, Late Summer, #3

Lake Martin, Louisiana. Sunset, March 2015.

On two visits a few weeks ago, at the end of March, it was about sunsets and gators.


Below is a snaggle-toothed gator gliding through a watery sunset:

Can one ever tire of seeing a predator floating by so close .... when you are entirely safe?

Gator, Lake Martin, Louisiana. Sunset, March 2015.

At 1:08 in the video above, you see my camp chair. It reminds me of a magnificent picnic lunch in New Mexico:

Jemez lunch stop, New Mexico. August 2013.

Same chair. Ah, look, my old festival bag is on the chair. Now gone.