Arizona Grasslands, Skywatch Friday

Howdee all,

This Skywatch post comes from the grasslands outside of Patagonia, Arizona.

We love this part of Arizona. Just a bit over an hour south of Tucson.

Great birding and amazing scenery.

We are not in Arizona now..but plan a visit this winter.

We are in GA..heading north to NC then New England

before we head west this fall.

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I have been enjoying using Windows Live writer for making these last three posts.

It is easier to arrange the photos, more font choices, more fun things to do with photos.

Bird Photography Weekly- Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

Howdee All,

April Fools..

But i do have this Lovely Green Heron.

I love this bird!

The Green Herons seems to blend so well with its surroundings.

Love the yellow around the eyes.

I photographed this birdie at Green Kay in Florida.

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Homey torn apart for fixin…I’m Outta here.

Howdee all,

Yes that's our Homey, Notice the slide room is not attached. They had to take it off to replace the seals..

So its pretty messy inside..my living room/dining room/kitchen so me and my fur boy are in the bedroom. Jeff is out watching the whole thing happen.

I am getting a bit stir crazy.

So I am going out to find some birdies or maybe some

Bugs

or maybe some mushrooms

Have a Wonderful Day!

PS.Looks like Homey stays apart until Insurance adjuster comes..

Oh also, I am posting this using Windows Live Writer for the first time.

I think i am going to like it.

Homeys getting a new TV, Spring in the Woods of GA

Howdee all,

We are still here in Service waiting for Monday for the Homey to be fixed. We arrived last Sunday....Homey was looked at on Monday to determine the parts that were needed to order.
Parts ordered...took until Thursday to get the parts.
Ugh...I really don't like waiting...
but we did find some nice walks to do here...

In the meantime a few other issues were worked on.
We decided to have our bedroom TV upgraded here. We upgraded the front TV over a year ago from a 19 inch box to a 32 inch flat screen.
What size TV do you have at home? Or do you not watch TV?
We personally like to watch TV...most days we are out all day...hiking, birding, sightseeing.
So its nice to come home and relax with a movie or show.

I like American Idol, Desperate Housewives and Hero's. I used to watch a few more faithfully..but it got to be a bit much...Have been watching more movies instead.
I do get my All My Children and Ellen Fix several times a week.
And always love to watch CBS Sunday Morning.
HGTV is my favorite channel if I had to choose one that I couldn't live without.
I do also read and you all know I spend time on this computer.
What shows do you like to watch on TV? or if you love books send a few of your favorite titles my way.

So anyways.....Our bedroom TV is a 13 inch box..and with all the digital changes we decided now would be a good time to upgrade. Now when I or Jeff wanted to watch something different. ..he can watch satelliteI can watch antenna TV.
We decided on a 19 inch flat screen.

To put in our TV..its not a matter of just buying it and putting it on a table...We have to have it mounted with a stable frame around it. We don't want that TV falling as we travel down the road

We hope all the work will be done by Tuesday and we will drive to my sisters home in North Carolina, where we will stay for a month, doing some gardening and other fun stuff.
But in the meantime..

Spring is here in the Georgia woods.




the mosses and lichens are always here.

I googled to try to ID these...but didn't find them.
Any Ideas?


Devils Claw mushrooms signal springtime in the fungi world.
I take this info from a wonderful nature website.
Nature at close range.
quote from the book Petersen's: A Field Guide to Mushrooms: "The black cups emerging through the fallen leaves from March to May are true harbingers of spring." Ah, nothing says spring like "black cups emerging from the ground."


Today is Sunday
CBS Sunday morning
and then we go for a trip into Augusta...to a few places I found on the Wings over Georgia birding site.
Gonna see us some birdies.
Hope you all have a wonderful Sunday!
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Skywatch at the FMCA rally

Howdee all,
This weeks skywatch post comes from the Family Motor coach Rally we went to in Perry, Ga.
I was out and about around 8am ..I walked the fairgrounds with my head in the clouds.

Beautiful puff balls.

I wondered if anyone else noticed.


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FMCA Rally, Perry, GA.

Howdee all,

As most of you know we spent the last week at the big Family Motor home Rally...
Around 3,500 motor homes and their owners attended the event...small gathering this year..probably due to our troubled economy. A few years back they had more than double the amount of attendees.

This is a photo Jeff took from the top of our Homey.


Everything related to living full or part time in a Motor home was there..
...from classes to gadgets.. to...
yep
Big Honking Motor homes..
Check out this Lovely Home...At about 1.5million and over you can have one of these yourself.

Do you like this glitzy style?

or is it Earthy tones what you are looking for?

They had motor homes of all sizes...from your converted camper vans to the above..Prevost Bus conversions.

Jeff and I decided we are quite happy with our Homey and didn't purchase either of the Million dollar buses...tee hee..

It was a fun time.


Now we are in Waynesville, Ga. a half hour south of Augusta.
At Reeves Custom Coaches for replacement of our livingroom slide-room seal.

You can click and scroll around the map to check out the area.


So here we sit in a park like setting.

This is a family compound of sorts, Lots of land, some family homes.... used to be a YMCA camp. There is a violet blue pond we can see from the Homey, cabins, a large meeting room, tennis and volleyball courts, hiking trails, and swamp areas that might be good for birding.
Met the owner Fred Reeves, his wife and three young boys...they are a very lovely family.
Cutest little boys.

Looks like a bit over a week before the work is done...ordering parts etc.
We may also decide to have our bedroom TV updated from a 13 inch to possibly a 22.

So.......... we will settle in a bit.
Take Day trips...walk the grounds ..do a little birding and hope it doesn't take much longer than a week. I never do like having my home disrupted, torn apart..but, it is just a small inconvenience in the greater scheme of things

I leave you with this sunset photo taken at the rally.

Jeff's head is aglow!

St George Island, Florida.. Skywatch Friday

Howdee all,

This skywatch post features a series of photos from a morning on St. George Island in the panhandle of Florida.
This was just a few weeks ago...the temps had been cold every morning the week we stayed there. This was our last day so we set out early to go bird watching. The air was still. As we walked we realized how warm it was and started peeling off our layers.
It was a gorgeous. As you can see the clouds were amazing.

I had a hard time eliminating photos from this series...Sorry...so I subject you to some that are similar...but I love them.
We started our walk on the Gulf side of the Island.

Then walked to the bay side.
It was low tide and we were looking for shorebirds. The water was like glass.
This below is a view looking north and east.

if you look closely you can see some shorebirds.
This view below is looking west and a bit north.

I now look south and the sun peeks through


Looking west again ..The clouds were moving quickly and the ones that were to the north were now over the island.
strange formations over the island
a closer look at the formationsThe clouds were changing rapidly...I turn back to the East and take this shot.

the wind starts to pick up...you can see the rippling in the water.

The clouds come over us from the north west...if you look closely the wind is starting to blow the water over the mud flats. It was getting cold and very windy...
The mud flats were getting covered with water...
It was time to go...We were leaving the island for our next adventure.

Goodbye St. George Island...You gave us a nice parting gift!

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