2024 Eclipse !!!
Luck was with us in Garland for the big event I’d looked forward to for years!!! May have to go to Iceland in 2026 or so.


Luck was with us in Garland for the big event I’d looked forward to for years!!! May have to go to Iceland in 2026 or so.


Forgot to post this one: I’ve tried to see the planet Mercury off and on for about the last 50 years. Being the closest planet to the sun, it is usually in sun or city glare. In March out in the clear skies of the Davis Mountains I finally succeeded!!! Here’s a greatly zoomed in…
Here’s a few denizens and scenes from the Davis mnts. this week. The warbler was our 70th species for the cabin!
Sometimes fascinating nature happens right in your backyard!! We came back from a weekend trip yesterday and were unloading the car, going in and out. I stepped into the front room and felt the air conditioner kick on, blowing from the vents, and simultaneously I smelled an awful, putrid, dead animal smell. We searched around…
Gathered with friends, love and a random German in Eldorado, texas yesterday for the big astronomical event!!! It was a blast!! If you look closely at the most enlarged pix of the sun, you can see sun spots.
Non-avian denizens of the deep.
Not birds, but what the heck: getting some neowise pix