We’re back in the van

 

 

Texana Park and campground.

 

Texana Park and Campground link

 

 

 

With our own grassy avenue down to the lake’s edge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Valley Nature Center

 

 

 

 

 

 

Black and White Warbler

 

 

 

 

 

Baltimore Oriole

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Green Heron

 

 

 

Practicing patience.

 

 

Television weather reports

 

 

These South Texas guys crack me up.

 

When we were kids in Southern California, we knew about the desert.  We learned to be wary of flash floods.  Dry arroyos.  They’re dangerous, even if it not raining.  The rain can be miles away in the mountains.  The water builds up in the mountains and consolidates down to the dry arroyos, rising quickly, flooding within minutes.  That’s a flash flood.

 

When we get rain here, and there is a danger of flooding, the weatherman refers to the situation as “flash flooding”.  There isn’t a hill within a hundred miles, and we’re going to get a surprise flash flood?  The ground is flat.  It rains.  The rain has nowhere to go, so the water slowly rises.  I think that’s actually just called flooding.

 

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

 

 

 

Males and females.

 

 

 

A Northeastern bird.  Judy and I are Westerners.  We never heard of these birds before we came to Texas.  They pass through here on their way from wintering grounds in South and Central America.