A sensory delight.
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Sitting at the Houston airport last night
An arctic blast happened to the U.S. while we were gone. The weather was 37 degrees in Harlingen when we landed. We, of course, were dressed in shorts and shirts with no jackets in our luggage or the car. We had some light-weight long-sleeved shirts and long pants for jungle-wear, so we each put our jungle clothes on over the clothes we were already wearing. That worked! All I really needed was enough to go get the car and warm it up while looping around to pick Judy up at the door.
Black Vulture.
Black-throated Magpie Jay
One of the birds we really wanted to see in Mexico.
Walking along a path, we found this one.
We couldn’t get a really good look at him. Then he flew out and back.
Goofy looking bird. He flies kind of like our ragdoll cat ran. All over the place. Way fun.
Speaking of flying, we’ve flown to Houston. We’re trading in our pesos for dollars, and trading in our stilted Spanish for stilted English as we try not to say everything twice, once in English and once in Spanish, even to each other.
Our connecting flight to Harlingen is delayed, so we’re not going to be home tonight as planned, but with any luck we’ll be home very early tomorrow!
Can you spot the iguana in this picture?
And traffic lights
Some intersections have a lot of them. Some, not so many. Sometimes you drive through an intersection and see a line of cross-traffic cars waiting their turn. In that case, stay with cars around you as best you can, and try to find the single light somewhere to see if it has changed or not before you get to and through the intersection. A couple times I have spotted it after I was already in the intersection and been the last one through, when I should have been the first one, next cycle.
Northern Jacana.
We’ve seen it before, in the states, but just once. It is a super rare bird that shows up maybe once a decade. Here, it’s just a bird.
And baby Jacana.
Our street in town.
