Feb 26 - Green Jay

I love the top photo of the Green Jay taking a bath at Laguna Atascosa.  The bottom photo is the way they usually look.

Feb 26 - Wildlife

Page one of a two page scrapbook layout of our visit to Laguna Atascosa.

Page two.  We took the two hour tram ride but got most of the photos at the Visitors Center.  If we took the tram again, I think we would wait and go at 4:00 instead of the middle of the day.

Feb 22 - Neighborhood

This is a scrapbook page of the South Padre Island farmers market we have been going to on Sunday mornings.  Last Sunday afternoon our neighborhood had a potluck dinner.  Most of our friends here have moved on, which is what we'll be doing in a few days.

Feb 17 - Tim's visit!

I haven't seen my brother, Tim, since 1993 and we were so please he was able to stop here for a night while going from his post in Mexico City with the State Department to training in DC for his next post, which will be in Burkina Faso in Africa.  We all wished his wife and daughters could have come, too, but it just couldn't be worked out.

We took Tim to dinner with the gang.  Louie's is always this crowded on Sunday and Thursday nights - rib nights.  We went at 4:00 to avoid the rush but were part of the rush instead.

Feb 15 - Pelicans

A ship heading from the channel out to sea.

I've been trying for 3 years to get some good pelican photos.

I finally got some decent shots this year.

Feb 14 - LaFeria

The Mack brothers cooking lunch.  We had another music day in LaFeria, TX with our friends and had a cookout instead of going out to eat.  We were too busy having fun to get photos.   Galen and I found a geocache in a La Feria cemetery on the way back to SPI.

We saw this derrick on the way to Brownsville while on our way to LaFeria.  It moves faster than one would expect something that big to move.

Feb 5 - SPI Kite Show

It looks like these people at the kite show ought to be scared.

The guy on the cart being pulled by the kite went both directions.

Here he is going the other way.

The kite show is held on the beach near the South Padre Island Convention Center at this time each year.  It is hard to believe that only the day before I was taking photos of ice and that the freezing north winds were finally gone, replaced by a gentle southerly breeze.