Author: Steve

It said:

“Men are twice as likely as women to have a hearing problem,

but only half as likely to admit it.”

What?

It’s gnarly trees again.

First, we found a place with plenty of them.  The grain silos around Progresso are a good place to start.

A lot of them were red-winged blackbirds.

There were brown-headed cowbirds.

Bronzed cowbirds.

And our target for the day, the yellow-headed blackbird, in the center of this frame, to the right of the pole.

He was being reclusive.

It’s a lake with no outflow and an underground, 4-million-ton, salt dome right beneath it.  The salt is from the Jurassic period.  This area was part of the Gulf of Mexico back then; that’s where the original salt came from.  This is not the only salt dome around here, it’s just the one that geological conditions exposed.  Salinity in the lake is 10 times that of the ocean.  Seasonal rainfall determines how wet or dry the lake is.  It’s pretty white right now.  We haven’t had a rain lately.

But then I might be sounding too much like the guy who just bought an iPhone instead of an Android…