Thursday, March 10, 2011

Hello, San Antonio!

Here we are! Warm, sunny, with lots of traffic.
Have I mentioned that Texans seem to really love their state, their flag? I should have taken some photos of examples of that in the thousand trails park we left this morning. Wagons painted to look like the flag, mailboxes, and actual flags most everywhere.
Tomorrow's Friday My Town Shootout topic is chaos. The only chaos I see around here is the traffic. I'm just not used to it anymore.
This is the little RV park we're staying in for a few days, Traveler's World. Kind of charming in its own little way. Look at the "spring" in some of those trees!!! And even though it's kind of a parking lot with everyone lined up next to each other, there is a concrete pad & picnic table on each site, and actual grass & trees on every lot. Plus, it overlooks a golf course. Not too bad.

After we arrived here, we drove about 10 minutes down to Riverwalk for some lunch. It's a winding river that snakes through the downtown area with a bazillion restaurants and shopping. It's obviously very touristy, and, I'm sure, employs many of the local residents. We're going back tomorrow and I'll take the Canon with me. But for today...
Shiner Bock is made in Shiner, TX (it was really good, by the way). I think we'll be going right by there in the next couple of weeks. Perhaps we'll have to make a little detour?

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

A Few Pics


Gobs of cardinals here.  Everytime I see a male I think, when God made these, He must have been so pleased!  Love that red!

Hog boy, hoggin' up the feeder.
I don't know what this one is.  I thought maybe some kind of titmouse?
Then there's the grackle.  We have been trying to catch their calls on video for a few weeks now.  They sound like rustling paper, then radio frequency, then a strange whistle.  I find the sounds fascinating.  We'll keep trying.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

All God's Creatures Sunday

We're only in this park for a few more days.  Wednesday we'll be moving on into San Antonio to check out the Alamo and Riverwalk.  We found out in the newspaper today that this weekend was the 175th anniversary of the Alamo, and there was a re-enactment!  There would have been some very cool pictures, right? 
Our couple of weeks here have been such a blessing.  A true rest.  I think we both have refueled now, and are ready to find some new adventure.  I'm sure going to miss the deer.  They're going to miss me too since I bought that great big bag of corn for them!