Toledo Bend Reservoir

   On 5-22-2011 I went to Center Texas to see the Lily Farm on Hwy 7 W.   Since we didn't have anything better to do after seeing the farm we decided to go to Hodges Garden, in Sabine Parish LA.  To get there we took Hwy 87 to Hwy 12 and then crossed over the Toledo Bend Reservoir.  When we went from Texas to Louisiana the road changed from 12 to Hwy 6 and it was a long bridge.  Then we took Hwy 171 to the gardens.
  Going over the Toledo Bend Reservoir the bridge it reminded me so much of Hwy 190 going over the Atchafalaya basin..  I started to think about what was happening in that part of the state. What struck me so much was how down the water was at Toledo Bend.  It just boggles my mind that we are in drought conditions around here yet they are having to flood the Atchafalaya Basin because of all of the flooding that they have had to the north.  I just wish we could have had some of that rain that went north and also some of that water going into the Atchafalaya basin area.  Its hard to believe the two reservoir areas are only about a 150 miles apart.

Texas side of Toledo Bend, heading east

Looking north to where the Sabine River enters  Toledo Bend Reservoir

Half way across the bridge around were Texas / Louisiana boarder is over Toledo Bend

Toledo Bend where you can see the water is way down.

Toledo Bend Reservoir on Hwy 6, approaching Louisiana  from Texas.