Photo 04-26-2009

How exciting yesterday to see this new bird (at least to me new!)..... a rose-breasted grosbeak! Especially after reading that this bird only migrates through south Texas and is not seen that much!

The other cute picture I took yesterday was of this rabbit... wish I would have had that during easter!

Photo 04-25-2009

Earth Day at the Nature Center!

We were looking so forward to this day, lots of activities and lots of opportunities to volunteer for us..... unfortunately friday evening it rained 7 inches so a lot of the activities had to be cancelled or moved to other areas due to flooding.

Although the day started really moody half way through the sun started shining and a lot of people came to visit. We had bird house making, face painting, recycling, canoeing, music, reptile demonstrations and lots more!

I ended up working all day long at the admission stand and for you who think that's boring... we had lots of exciting people coming, hummingbirds flying around and even a big snake not a feet away from my chair.. so quite an exciting day!

Photo 4-18-2009

I have had it with the rain... today we went for a short shopping trip, at least that was the plan until it started pooring down. We were flooded and had to stay at the parking lot for more than an hour. Then we could go to a nearby Wafflehouse to get something to eat and wait another hour to make sure the water had receded. Unfortunately when we were almost home there was some flooding there too.... the whole trip lasted 7 hours! (Which normally doesn't take longer than 20 minutes!

This is when we were soaking wet in the car....

Looking outside we saw only this.....

After half an hour of waiting Amra fell asleep.....

After waiting at the restaurant we went home to see another surprise... flooding here is NOT common!

Amra on the other hand, was cheerful and bright after a good meal and some sleep!

Photo 04-18-2009

I've had enough of the rain, so I'm posting some more pictures of the nature park.....

I didn't take that many pictures today anyway, since we went shopping!!

Photo 04-15-2009

A couple more nature pictures from Brazoos Bend State Park.... I just love my new lens..... so much easier to take great pictures!