§ Reflections Of....

The other day when I drove to a favorite park of mine, I spent several minutes on the Hawkwatch Platform, watching birds of all kinds fly in and take advantage of the drip system for drinking water. This dove flew into the tree near the bottom of the 'pond' and I noticed its reflection on the water's surface and snapped a photo...

 

They are mainly indigenous to the Southwest United States from the southern tip of California, across New Mexico and into Texas. What we see here in Corpus is year 'round, tho they are also known to migrate in the winter, southward into Old Mexico. If interested, click here, to listen to their song.

So after resizing this dove photo off my digital camera to upload it to a blog post, I skimmed through my computer files to see if I had any MORE reflection photos. Here are three others...

Turtle


Monrning light at Pollywog Ponds


Gulf Sunrise Reflections

§ In the Merry Month of May...

TUESDAY:

Just spending a couple hours along the beach...




WEDNESDAY:

Our 54th Wedding Anniversary
Out to lunch.

THURSDAY:
Our grandson's 33rd birthday today!
[ps]our youngest grandson had his college graduation Law School Hooding ceremony this past Saturday. Will share photos soon.

§ Let's Go Surfing Now....

Up front, I am compelled to apologize for the heavy post filled with photos! I adjusted the viewing size to help this post's loading time! If you wish to view larger images, make use of the Blogger option of clicking on the pictures to embiggen with its Lightbox filter! This is the morning I sat on the shore of the Gulf watching the surfing activities and watching the sea crash into the jetty's boulders. After fighting for my balance and trying to hold my camera steady in the wind, I gave up and walked along the shoreline a while, finding a whole sand dollar partially buried...

§ Smiley Face: Face to "Face"...

It's been typical wintry days here the past week or so. Damp, gray, dismal, and chilly! We are supposed to have a warm-up, with clearing skies for a couple of days, only to have another cold front move in for the week's end. Needless to say, I'm not getting the walking in that I should be doing. Sunday morning, tho, I had to get to the store for milk [if they had it in the coolers] so, I opted to stop along Ocean Drive and walk along the road to the Army/Navy base and peruse the mudflats for wintering waterfowl. I spotted hundreds of skimmers and brown pelicans, gulls, godwits, herons, grackles, sandpipers, dowitchers, terns, ducks, egrets, stilts, willets, and more birds. This is what else I saw...

Intermittent sun trying to come out, fog, nature's winter kill on many plants and wildflowers, etc.:

...as I walked, I could see in front of me, along the bay's shore, fog rolling in. It was swirling rapidly toward my face....beautiful!!

When, I was done, and my outer garment was damp with dew and clinging to me, my shoes heavily laden with mud from walking the mudflats, I headed toward the road to clean my shoes before getting in the car, only to sit on a boulder along the roadside, looking down, face to "face" [literally] with a saltwater, soaked, piece of plywood. Can you see the smiley face?!! I took it home. I would like to think it's a good omen for days to come!?!!

As the wood is drying out in the garage as of Sunday, I am inspecting it...no, it's NOT something carved in the wood...it's a natural phenomenon!! Eventually, I will clean it up, shellac it, and have it hung on the wall somewhere to remind me of a happy day ahead!!

§ Photo Overload...

If I follow my weekly routine, I would've been home doing laundry on Saturday morning. Instead, I chose to drive to North Padre Island and stop at Whitecap Beach to walk and check out the waves shortly after high tide. Hurricane Grace that made landfall in Old Mexico was supposed to create 8 foot waves for our coast. It didn't pan out. At least while I was at the seawall. And, being Saturday, to boot, seems everyone in the 'hood was there too...like a day of early sales for Christmas...what do they call that? Black Friday? Many many walkers, joggers, dog walkers, people with cellphones aimed at the parallel to catch the first glimpse of the sun breaking the horizon. I was there, disappointed that along the seawall there were no crashing waves.  BUT***

Of course I took photos! And a LOT of them!! Hope the number of photos doesn't make this post slow to load. I apologize up front!

It never fails tho, there is always someone who is foolish enough to drive on this....stuck! It was a young woman [in her early 20s my guess]. I have said this a million times, and will reiterate...there is no common sense seen much anywhere any more!! Cops to the rescue?! Dunno...he left and she was still there when I left. What I can't understand is, there were dozens of capable people, but no one tried to help. I'm too old to push vehicles, but there WERE young whippersnappers!! 4-6 guys coulda had her straighten her front wheels and pushed her to 'drier' ground!

 

Showing many people out and about, and behind me, the pretty pinks in the sky above the dunes...

...and now for my BUT*** seen above.  At one point near the end of the seawall, I used my zoom lens to see if I could view the jetty at packery channel about 1/4 mile away.  I wasn't about to venture off the wall's walkway and get my feet soaked from the ebb tide and playing twister to avoid all the debris washed up on shore from the storm.  Showing the rough breakwater waves crashing!