Texas

I’m still thinking about Moab. I told of our great adventure, driving on
the white rim road for a couple hours. Stephanie, from our office, is off
to run on it this weekend. There is an independent movie in the works. An
extreme running movie. It will track the progress of several runners
through a year of training and “ultra” runs. What a great thing for someone
else to do so we can watch how she does. Maybe I’ll give it a try….. in
my next life.

Birding

Saw the redstart again. This evening we saw the blackpoll again, and an
immature summer tanager. We saw a purple gallinule and eleven baby black
bellied whistling ducks, and some baby blue herons that all look like Don
King in the gum trees behind the pond. More black and white, magnolias,
chestnut sided, bay breasted, and yellowthroats.

Texas

We bought a couple bottles of water to take on a bicycle ride. The label
caught my eye. It was Fiji water. On the label it said, “Bottled at the
source”. I’ve always figured all that bottled water comes from some guy
with a garden hose in Utah or New Jersey, but this brings to mind an image
of container ships filled with pallets of bottled water crossing the
Pacific. I know we can’t believe everything we read, but there are some
truth in advertising and labeling rules aren’t there? Does this mean the
guy with the garden hose is actually in Fiji? Is Fiji in New Jersey? Or
Arkansas?