Oct. 26: Canyon Lake, TX

Even though we're out in the open, this is a really pretty camp ground. We do a walk of a mile in the morning and about 1/3 of mile in the afternoon. On good days, we're doing another mile walk in the evening. These walks always take us to areas where there are deer. We have seen so many deer on every walk, that we were disappointed to just see two yesterday morning. This morning we didn't see any but there are lots of people in the camp now. This afternoon when we walked up to the gate house to pay for another week, we saw two. Tonight around the campfire, a small herd moved around us in the dark - we could see only their silhouettes - about half a dozen of them.















I took these two pictures of the deer from right at our camp site.

















We've had a campfire the last couple of nights and had a beautiful sunset two nights ago. Our days here have been in the lower 80's and the nights in the 50's.














Friday afternoon I carved a pumpkin but it will be dried out by Halloween and I'll probably have to do another one. And that picture of me really lends credence to the theory that a camera will add 10 lbs to you. Good Lord!!! Larry took that and we've had a chat about making me look good from now on. He said something about being able to only do so much.



















And this lovely creature, a Turkey Vulture, showed up because our neighboring campers left and threw out some garbage for the local wildlife to eat. This one took full advantage of the treasure and was all by himself for about 30 minutes, then his buddies shows up--about 5 more of them. They are much more beautiful soaring the skies.

Yesterday I managed to get both the KU and K-State games on satelite. I use the term "games" loosely. KU and K-State showed up. I'm anxious for the Texas and Texas Tech game next Saturday even though that's the day we're going to be at the Wurstfest - I'll be checking the scores on my cell phone.

I've been uploading these larger icons for your viewing ease, however they really screw up my editing of the print-matching-the-picture ability. So I'll be going back to the smaller versions.