Alastriona's Place: Pascagoula River Audubon Center

Aug 31, 2017

Pascagoula River Audubon Center - March 2017, Part 1

The Moss Point Fine Art Gallery is located inside the Pascagoula River Audubon Center and showcases the work of local artist. When I visited in March 2017 the work of Ruth Kimbrough was being featured.

I love her work.

We had an unseasonably WARM WINTER, I don't think I wore a sweater all winter, so I win a ticket to Pascagoula River Audubon Center's Birds and Brews in March and what happens it turns unseasonably COLD. If I hadn't won the ticket I would have stayed in but since I had a free ticket I put on my thermal underwear a heavy sweater and a heavy coat and braved the freezing temperatures in MARCH, I am so glad I did as I had a marvelous time. And Captain Benny McCoy supplied warm blankets for his passengers.

Captain McCoy is very knowledgeable about the local waterways and the local wildlife, I learned a lot from his tour.

And the Scenery was magnificent.

I love the older houses on the River

Really wish I had blogged about this sooner as my memory has faded but the marsh grass is an important part of the ecosystem. I wish I remembered more of what Captain McCoy told us about it.

I know that it's used as a nursery. It also makes for an interesting picture with the clouds reflected in the water.

Sure would be nice to have these lovely blue skies back. We are having an unseasonably WET SUMMER.

I took a picture of this sign so I would know where I was at, if we ever go kayaking here. Dr. Thomas Singley and some of his neighbors were nice enough to put signs in the maze of bayous in the lower Pascagoula River.

I saw this Egret as we were putting into shore, I think it may be a Great Egret but I am not certain.

I turned this picture into a pencil sketch as it was sort of blurry.

This is a Red Buckeye. I had gotten one from the Center a few years ago, but I don't think mine made it. If it ever stops raining I need to go look in the yard for it.