Woosday..Day in Gruene, Texas

That water looks a lot wetter than it used to. Sure is purdy though. So's them bushes.

Spring "Texans Have More Fun" Chicken
Spring Texas USA

Great pics and looks like a nice river to fish in...even though the water does look wet... :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Spent the weekend at Hamburg State Park, a nice little place about 120 miles from home with only 30 sites. We had a nice lakeside spot with plenty of shade and an eastern exposure. The weather was in the low to mid 80s all weekend, with morning lows in the 50s. There was a nice breeze blowing to keep the bugs and humidity down. Maybe the best part of the weekend is that I had no cell service or internet. It felt great to disconnect for three days.






Set my hammock up about 2' from the water's edge. Me, my daughters, and my wiener dog had quite a few naps laid up in it.



Caught more than a handful of nice little channel cats. I was planning to take my belly boat out but the ranger told me the lake was full of gators and snappers so I took the easy way out. Here is a nice shot of the mist rising off the lake early one morning.



I also caught a huge alligator snapper on chicken liver, it was at least 24" from snout to tail. The pics are on the wife's camera so maybe I can post some tomorrow.


Great little spot and we would love to return, but the ranger told me as we were leaving that they just found out this weekend that the park was going to be closed as part of State budget cuts.

Looks like your day in Gruene was a lot of fun, Mike. Those rapids look like a blast, too.
Nice bug and flowers shot. :~)


We're having an amazing year for butterflies. Here are just a few from the last couple days.


Red Spotted Purple drinking morning dew.





Monarch






Gray Hairstreak with a Skipper





Buckeye butterfly sharing the sedum.





Praying Mantis chowing down on a Spicebush Swallowtail.





And this very cool Ailanthus Webworm Moth supping on the sedum.





Happy WoosDay!


john

 
Looks like a great weekend Fidel and a great little park. I hate it when they close public lands and blame it on the budget! All it is is mismanagement of funds and they are going to hold the public lands hostage till someone pays the ransom. Politicians shouldn't be allowed to use property of the Public Trust as bargaining chips in their corruption. Just my 2¢.

Blair

 

nice pics!! ...you ever wonder how people can go tubing all day long, drink lots of beer in the process, yet never have to get out of the tube for pee break??!! hmmmm, makes you kinda wonder don't it??

Patience and persistence. :~) Most of the bug pictures come out blurred or out of focus or the bugs are moving so fast, by the time the shutter has released, there's no bug in the photo.

A couple things that help me photograph bugs. They might seem obvious but they do help.... move very slowly toward the subject with no fast or jerky movements that might scare off the bug.
Don't let your shadow pass over the bug as that will surely spook it off.
Make sure the camera is on macro and extend your camera nearly arm length so your body mass isn't hovering over the bug.
But most of all.... Take a couple hundred photos to get a few good ones.






john

wow....

great color,

check this article... a Frederic Church painting was found recently in Boston, and the color of your photos is right up his palette, so to speak.

Found Church Cloud Painting

Molly is one lucky lady to live in such a nice place.
Yes, my birthday :huh: Linda's too... We were both zero when we married.

Cool story... finds like that are pretty rare. Thanks for the link.


john

Looks like a fun day.

Is Granzin's still in the neighborhood?? I heard they moved. In the old days the best parking was at the laundry-mat next to the store. Their hot links are wonderful.