Went around the nearby small town of LeCompte (pronounced: Le-Count) and took some photo's of some of the landmarks or scenic views.
For LeCompte, first up would probably have to be Lea's Lunchroom. Purported to be home of the best pie in Louisiana, and the Pie Capital of Louisiana, there's even a Pie Festival in LeCompte every year.
Lea's is a small, family owned restaurant off the main highway through LeCompte, so it's got a nice location to stop off at while heading through town.
Lea's Lunchroom has been around since the 1920's, and is actually kind of famous, and has been featured on some tv shows, as well as being part of some tours in the area.
Another well known restaurant in LeCompte, at least to me, is Don's Cajun Kitchen. Their hours are a little more sporadic than Lea's, but as small as LeCompte is, that's somewhat understandable. They have some pretty good Crawfish Etouffee, which is somewhat like a gumbo dish, typically being served over rice.
This is a photo of what might be called...main street, in LeCompte. As a town with a population of around 1300, it's pretty much the definition of the rural town.
This is a mural on the side of, I am sure you guessed it, the Water Street Market, but I thought it looks really nice. The Water Street Market is a fairly typical small town convenience store, providing small, varied sundries.
A small bit of a river running through LeCompte, pretty close to the previously named Water Street Market, but I just couldn't help myself, as I thought this scene looked great.
This last one is technically from LeCompte, but actually from our yard, hanging out on one of our small yard carts. I think it turned out even better than I thought it would
I like taking close up pictures of bugs with wings because I like seeing their wings, and bugs seem to be a little more...forgiving with proximity to people than un-domesticated animals. Although I don't know what this bug is, I wasn't able to find out anything bad about it, so I don't think it's too dangerous.
Most of the bugs I take pictures of happen to land on me while I'm out mowing, and sometimes, it gets really difficult to take a good picture with an actual camera when I have only my left hand to use, so I wasn't able to get this one very close.
This one looks kind of like a really small moth, but it was the middle of the day, so I really doubt that it was a moth, from the shape of the wings I might think maybe a Leafhopper, but it seems a bit too chunky for one of them.
I didn't know frogs had a habit of being so cool. I keep a little Grabber-Arm tool with me on the mower while mowing to move branches out of the way or other things, and I don't know how long he was there, but he was just hanging out, I guess enjoying the ride. Which is weird since the tractor was on pretty close to full power so it was rumbling and making lots of noise. I ended up dropping him off near the tree I noticed him at, since I had to go mow in the sun, and I doubt frogs like the sun much.
Our pecans are coming in very nice, these are some of the bigger ones. A lot of the trees we have are still green, but some of them are already starting to brown and open up. I think this will be a great pecan year.
I'm going to start taking some landscape-type pictures from now on, these won't necessarily be 'of' anything, and for a while they might be a little bad until I get the hang of taking this style of photo, so I'll start off with my favorite one, the one I think came out best, of the bayou across the road. We get all sorts of birds, nutria, gators, pretty much every type of animal in Louisiana is over there at some point in time.
This one is just a picture of the, mostly, mowed yard, the picture might not do it justice, and this is only about half of it, but it's actually really big. And while you can't see it right now, it's incredibly wet out there, no standing water at the moment, but pretty much all the dirt is mud right now. We've had some pretty serious raining over the last couple months, and yesterday we had some more rain, so the ground is pretty saturated.
And this last one is the tree in the background of the previous picture, it's a pretty big tree. Not terribly tall, but really wide. This one is not one of our pecan trees, almost unfortunately, one that big could drop a whole heap of them on it's own
Thanks for stopping by, and if you'd like, let me know which one of the pictures you liked the most, or share your thoughts, I'd be happy to hear them. Until next time, have a great day or night.
Before the big rain down here in Louisiana, I took a few pictures of a small plane that sprays the fields across the road, I think most of them came out pretty well.
The plane is a very small one, flown by a guy who has his own airfield down the road a ways, although, airfield may be too official of a term for it, its just a small strip.
This is my favorite one out of the plane photos, where he's dropping the pesticide/herbicide (I'm not to sure which, exactly), just because I think it was cool that I was able to get it in a fairly visible way.
While out mowing, down here in Louisiana, the bugs are everywhere, since this one was just a fly, and not a terribly big danger, I decided to take a photo of it, that I think came out pretty well, he didn't stay around long after I started mowing again though.
I love getting these close-up photo's of dragonflies, they tend to be less wary of people being around, or at least they don't run away as fast, so it's a bit easier to get good, stable shots of them.
And this I believe was a Cicada who recently finished molting, because I can't think of any other reason why the Cicada would be on the husk like that, though I have found out it seems they really like this tire, I saw at least 6 other husks on the tire, so it may have just been there because they like it.
Sorry for the long delay, but thank you for stopping by. I think my favorites in this one are the plane spraying the field and the dragonfly one. I hope you all have a wonderful day and night, and I hope you stop by again.
