Animal Stories
Palo Duro Sunrise Deer Ears and a red sun
This mule deer beelines to Alan's back yard to have dessert. There are sunflowers off Alan's back porch and when this deer snaps one off the stem he looks like a little kid eating a piece of brightly colored candy. When I move towards a large living room...
Texas Cattle morning walks
I'm back in Texas. These cattle watch me intently as I cross the road to take their group portrait. I walk slowly, stop, give them a chance to get used to my intrusion. They are congregated by a fence line and don't really want to give up their ground....
Owl Cafe Waking up
The Owl Cafe was born in San Antonio, New Mexico, one of many New Mexican towns you zip past on the freeway, not even dots on the state road map. The original cafe doesn't have an owl on its roof and is a fifties style bar and grill with ancient cheap...
Pickles Calley's Cat
The last gato celebrated in this blog was sleeping on a window sill in Montevideo on a warm afternoon. Pickles is the newest feline to be celebrated. He has come, from Flagstaff, to stay at the Albuquerque homestead on Martingale Street for a month and a...
Buzzards waiting for death isn't always a long wait
This morning the clean up crew is roosting in a tall dead tree across the bridge that gets you over Percha Creek into Hillsboro, New Mexico. This tree is dead as their breakfast and gives the buzzards a good place to open their wings and catch the sun's...
Texas Turkey’s Lunch in Palo Duro Canyon
Driving back roads through flat dry West Texas prairie, one comes upon mule deer grazing among mesquite trees. They look at you as you pass with dark intense eyes. They are always aware, can turn quick and be gone even quicker, leap over barbed wire...
Polo and Juanito Friends
As our tour boat moves slowly through the water, paralleling Stone Island, we see mangroves form a wall to our east. We leave the marina and head north past large shrimp boats, tuna ships with miles of net piled on their decks, one of the largest fish...
Handstands Friday afternoon
The Temple of Music belongs in a different time and place. This edifice is in a downtown San Jose, Costa Rica city park where music is performed and people congregate. This afternoon there is a group of young gymnasts practicing handstands...
Uruguay is Green Bus ride to Salto
If I were a cow, the only place I would want to live would be Uruguay. Much like Arabs love their desert and sailors love their ocean, cows have to love this country. Those of us going to Salto on Monday, and there aren't many of us, board the bus at...
Dog Domination King of all she surveys
As man's best friend, and women's cuddle master, dogs are in Punta Del Este too. I have seen no dog whisperers here as I did in Ciudad Vieja, but dogs go where their masters are. Dog lovers know that their dogs are worth buying a steak for, grilling it,...
Dog Whisperer/ Late Afternoon Leader of the pack
Surrounded by dogs, all on leashes, this long hair consults his map. It isn't certain whether this group is going on a field trip, going to relieve themselves, headed for a romp on the beach, or just following their leader, who holds their...
Sleeping Gato/Centro/Montevideo Taking a well needed rest
There are plenty of dogs in this city, but thousands of cats too. Cats don't make a lot of noise, take up a lot of space, or make crazy demands. They live as they have for thousands of years - hunting, sleeping, making reproductions of themselves,...
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