Fourth of July

 

Bandera style.

 

Warm evening,  Hot dogs on the grill.  Potato salad.  Beans.

 

Drive into town to the golf course.  One neighbor, two pickup trucks.  Folding chairs in the truck beds.  Parked close enough to pass the watermelon back and forth.  Killing time with conversation until it’s dark enough.  The whole field fills in with pickup trucks and lawn chairs.  Sporadic fireworks; small town style.  Big finish.  Not completely sure when it’s done.  A couple more go off.

 

We go home.  Still fireworks on the horizon.

 

Perfect.

 

 

Bandera

 

A walk in the city park.

 

It’s a cypress forest along the stream.

 

 

 

 

 

It's hot.

 

…in Bandera in the summer.  It’s the Hill Country, so there is a little altitude, maybe 1,500 feet, but that’s not enough to cool off the weather.

 

So Jeff and Carol put up a sunscreen for their 5^th wheel.

 

…a really big sunscreen.

 

It works great.  The roof of the trailer is always in the shade.  Plenty of room for air overhead.

 

The patio is open and comfortable.

 

 

 

What a great addition.

 

The trip continues

 

We left Port Aransas and drove to Bandera today.  Here is a map of our progress:

 

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=201563872774147443355.0004e02f0c80f1461c0bf&msa=0&ll=35.46067,-87.143555&spn=21.231648,53.569336

 

For perspective, I’ve put in our ending point as well to show our progress.

 

Impressive?

 

 

A walk in Charlie's Pasture

 

 

 

Got to watch a Black-necked Stilt dance

 

 

Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs together

 

A Scissor-tail Flycatcher camouflaged in a tree

 

Roseate Spoonbill

 

Reddish Egret

 

Common Nighthawk

 

 

Wilson’s Plover

 

 

Exciting news!

 

Our next grandkid is a baby girl!  Matt and Lindsay just found out today.  (No more baby pictures yet.)  We’ll get to see her in November.

 

 

Exciting news!

 

Our next grandkid is a baby girl!  Matt and Lindsay just found out today.  (No more baby pictures yet.)