Steve and Judy's Travels!

Michael and Nora.  Friends for years here in the valley, we lost touch.  Emails got returned.  I was going to ask their son what was going on, but hesitated, not wanting to know if it was bad news.  Then emails to his son started getting returned.  I figured that one out.  The address we had for Michael junior was through his university address.  He had graduated and moved on.  A couple more years went by, then a name popped up on Snapchat.  I don’t know how that happened, I never look at Snapchat, but there it was, Michael Navarro.  I couldn’t tell which Michael, but fired off a note, which resulted in a long catchup with them at their house today.

Reunited with friends.  A serendipitous moment.

One difference between cats and dogs is that dogs do absolutely nothing to mask their clinginess, while cats pretend it’s a coincidence they’re in the same room as you 97% of the time “The fact I am lying on your face means nothing.”

The masters of indifference being Charlie and Mr. Bean.

Mr. Bean being the upright one, if I’m not mistaken.

(When we were there.)

A Mississippi Kite.  Patrolling the lake and campground on the lookout for an evening snack.

They like to eat larger flying insects.  They catch them in the air with their talons and often continue flying while they eat them.  They’ll eat the occasional small bird, or bats, frogs, toads, lizards, and snakes if the opportunity arises.  While we were there, there were a number of kites gathering for the evening.  By dark, we had a tree full.

In Colorado.

Tiny little thing.

We don’t get them here in South Texas.

They’re almost everywhere else in North America, just not southernmost Texas and Arizona.

In Colorado.

Tiny little thing.

We don’t get them here in South Texas.

They’re almost everywhere else in North America, just not southernmost Texas and Arizona.