Category: 2017

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Friday we drove to Quitaque to visit Renee.  It had been about 18 months since we saw here last, in spite of promises to make the effort to visit more often both ways.  Although Renee has been in Amarillo a number of times in the interim, she was visiting an elder sister in poor health and that took up her time.

We took the scenic route to Quitaque which is SH 207 from Claude.  It goes down and through the Prairie Dog Fork of the Red River below Palo Duro Canyon State Park and is picturesque.  It also crosses Tule Canyon.  If you haven’t made that drive I recommend it.  There isn’t any significant time difference between that route and driving to Tulia and taking a left.  We left home about 8:30 and got home after dark.   Continue reading “Quitaque” →

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OK, let’s just call it the Montye moon in honor of Mom’s 108th birthday.

It was a mild evening and Joyce and I had finished dinner when the super moon began to show above the tree line, ideal conditions and good subject for a little night photography. Continue reading “Montye moon” →

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Recently while sitting at my desk in my room, I saw a fox lope across the backyard.  We haven’t seen any foxes around for quite some time.  When I mentioned seeing one to Joyce, she said she and Kari had noticed a lot of fox scat when walking around the place earlier in the day.  That may mean there are more than one. Continue reading “Fox trot” →

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We have had hummingbirds around all summer as usual.  There is usually a black chin that takes possession of the feeder and drives off all comers and that was the case this year.  We also saw the occasional migrant, especially in the spring.  Now the resident black chin has headed south and there are several migrants constantly vying for access to the feeder.  These are headed south as well but in the meantime they are keeping us entertained.  We even put out another feeder to relieve the congestion in front of the kitchen window. Continue reading “Hummers” →