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2006-11-14 - 11:46 a.m. photos � 2006 by elaine radfordbutterfly wing formations at sonora cavernsDurn, it's a rainy day. The birds tell me it's going to be raining all day. Not in words. In behavior. They don't bother to hide out and wait for it to quit. I have a soaking wet pair of Northern Cardinals that is absolutely hilarious. There seem to be a lot of Ruby-Crowned Kinglets around too, but maybe they can run between the raindrops. Hummingbird Report: Can you believe that I can't find my hummingbird feeder? Fortunately, the Turk's Caps are still covered with red flags and buds, and I've had at least one visitor in the rain, a very nice adult male RTHU. I had a ton of errands planned, but rather than splash around in the rain, I'll work on my photographs today. I've already gone back and added the illustrations to Part 1 of our Texas road trip, but you don't have to click back, because I'll post many of the photos right here on this page. Don't expect a photo of the Alamo or the Space Needle. I'm going into this thing assuming we already know what they look like. I'm reading the Grouse diary, and I gather that perhaps the deer we saw in Texas may also be breeding in November. So it might be lust, not suicidal mania, that brings them out to stalk the roads. I have no idea. I'm not such a much when it comes to the hooved mammals. But it certainly seems to be a most dangerous time of year, judging from the number we saw freshly killed on the road. In one block near a west Texas RV park, we saw three. Too bad somebody can't harvest that meat, if only for a food kitchen, but I guess there are licensing reasons why you can't pick up a road-killed deer. Every time I pick up our phone, there's no dial tone. Sigh. It's a good thing we have cells.
detail of a mosaic i like on the world's costliest birdbath walk between the riverwalk and the alamo
don't you love a perfectly ivy-claimed building?
one of the many cruise boats available to enjoy the river, but if you weren't driving because you had a hotel on the river, you might consider strolling along the walk and doing a pub crawl instead
the story of the old cypress trees near the flood control thingy, one of those trees looks like it's pretty much pining for the fjords to me, but i guess they must be hundreds of years old, so enjoy them now
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