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Eared Grebes

 While they’re whiling away the winter in way-south Texas, they look like this.Maybe a little plain. It’s nice to see them up north in Colorado in breeding plumage when they look like this.  
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Devil’s Kitchen Trail

 It started off gentle enough. Then it got steeper. The last part was a scramble up a hillside, but we made it. This is what the Devil’s Kitchen rock formation looks like. The little dots in the shadow in the middle are people. This is what it looks like looking back down the way we came. Then we took a wildflower walk.    Then we went back up to the rim to watch the white-throated swifts.  They’re so fast, it’s pretty hard to catch one in flight, but I got a few clicks.    
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Oops

 Didn’t mean to drive back to Glenwood Springs today.  We thought this was going to be a quiet day at Rifle Gap State Park.  Woke up in the early morning light with indigestion though.  I told Judy it was probably from the Chinese Food we had for dinner last night (it was excellent).  We talked a little more about what hurt and how, and she called “bullshit” on my story, found a Urologist in Glenwood and got me an appointment for this afternoon.  She was right (of course).  My indigestion story didn’t hold up.  I’m passing a kidney stone.  No problem though, it has moved quite a ways down the ureter already.  No reason to think I won’t make it the rest of the way through by myself (with the help of some painkillers).  It doesn’t hurt all the time; just when it wants.  No drastic measures needed.  (Now the tiny little 2.2mm kidney stone is the boss of me,) We like it here.  This is our campsite and view.