Hi all ~ OK, so the challenge is for you to find the bird (a Common Pauraque) in the photo We are still having fun here, although less for the last few days which have been cold and rainy Have done a bit more birding (witness the Pauraque!) and were supposed to go this morning but wimped out and went for breakfast instead! We have taken another golf clinic with a pro who is just great ~ he can analyze your swing and just tell you a cuple of things and lo and ...

Hi all ~ hope you got our last blog ~ somehow (perhaps operator error, hard as it is to believe) the date didn't get changed so the latest blog came up after the Christmas one so you may have to search for it (if you really want to!) Anyway, the picture this time is of some Black-bellied Whistling Ducks ~ on the lookout! So, since we last wrote, I (Elinor) have aged another year ~ now am actually and undeniably "in my 60s" I got spoiled with a pair of new b...

Hi and Merry Christmas!! Well, we decided to leave the freezingness of New Mexico and head into Texas. We crossed into the west side of Texas at Pecos and drove for half a day through boring flat countryside with only low shrubs and a few blink-and-miss-them towns. Headed to the "Texas hill country" where it continued to be cold! It is an interesting area, settled in the 1800s mainly by Germans and the towns are very small and nice architecturally. The place we ...

Hi, Well, we had a good Christmas and hope you all did too! We weren't going to go to the New Year's Eve do, being grinches and all, but we did and it was the most fun we have had at New Year"s for a long time ~ great music by a DJ and we danced and danced. It has been nice and sunny since then so we have been able to walk and bike in the State Park across the road, go to the pool and take Tess for nice walks. There are lots of places just outside the resort w...