Well...our days at Menden Lake, Nicolas, CA are numbered to two now...We will leave
Saturday Morning Early...we will trek to Elk Grove first for Breakfast with Dianne and Joe and then off to Bakersfield and then to Perris, CA...to meet up with a couple (the Schaffers) from the "Class of '06" at a Passport America Park...then we will depart there on the 18th to trek over to Blythe to meet up with more '06ers and make our way to Quartzsite for the big "Class of 06" Reunion Rally on the 20th...I just know that it is gonna be a hoot!!! We can't wait to meet-up with all the folks that we have been corresponding with for over a year now!!!
These pictures are of the Sunrise this morning...can you believe it??? I was up for Sunrise...I can't imagine why I was up...but since I was I had to get a sunrise picture and a beautiful sunrise it was...
These two pictures I took yesterday of the Swans...I love the first one...that swan in almost the middle of the picture was just landing...I couldn't even tell if I got the shot,he was too far away...but as you can see I got him...
This one is of a "Snowy Igret" (which I have been calling "Cranes) and two "Mallard Ducks" that ewere sharing some of the waters with the "Swans "...this area is all surrounded by rice fields that are flooded right now...the planting having just been done so it makes a great feeding ground for all kinds of bird-life!
I found out that the "Cranes" were "Snowy Igrets" because our daughter, Harmony...you know the one that's in the Air Force, stationed at Patrick AFB, FLA"...well she sent me a "bird book"...she had no idea that I had put three things on my list after Christmas of things that I wanted...one was a "bird book"!!! So thank you honey...I love it!!!
We have had a wonderful tme here in the Central Valley of CA...visiting with our kids, grandkids, other relatives and friends has been really nice...Now we are ready to see what comes next...the people and places that lay ahead of us this year beckon us...
We will see all of the most Southern States of our country: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Lousiana, Mississippi, Alabama. Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas and Oklamoma...and all that before we get back to the West Coast by the middle of June...then we are headed for Winchester Bay, Oregon, Astoria, Oregon, Vancouver, BC, Alaska (on a Cruise) then Victoria, BC and then whatever comes next...
Saturday Morning Early...we will trek to Elk Grove first for Breakfast with Dianne and Joe and then off to Bakersfield and then to Perris, CA...to meet up with a couple (the Schaffers) from the "Class of '06" at a Passport America Park...then we will depart there on the 18th to trek over to Blythe to meet up with more '06ers and make our way to Quartzsite for the big "Class of 06" Reunion Rally on the 20th...I just know that it is gonna be a hoot!!! We can't wait to meet-up with all the folks that we have been corresponding with for over a year now!!!These pictures are of the Sunrise this morning...can you believe it??? I was up for Sunrise...I can't imagine why I was up...but since I was I had to get a sunrise picture and a beautiful sunrise it was...
These two pictures I took yesterday of the Swans...I love the first one...that swan in almost the middle of the picture was just landing...I couldn't even tell if I got the shot,he was too far away...but as you can see I got him...
This one is of a "Snowy Igret" (which I have been calling "Cranes) and two "Mallard Ducks" that ewere sharing some of the waters with the "Swans "...this area is all surrounded by rice fields that are flooded right now...the planting having just been done so it makes a great feeding ground for all kinds of bird-life!
I found out that the "Cranes" were "Snowy Igrets" because our daughter, Harmony...you know the one that's in the Air Force, stationed at Patrick AFB, FLA"...well she sent me a "bird book"...she had no idea that I had put three things on my list after Christmas of things that I wanted...one was a "bird book"!!! So thank you honey...I love it!!!
We have had a wonderful tme here in the Central Valley of CA...visiting with our kids, grandkids, other relatives and friends has been really nice...Now we are ready to see what comes next...the people and places that lay ahead of us this year beckon us...
We will see all of the most Southern States of our country: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Lousiana, Mississippi, Alabama. Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas and Oklamoma...and all that before we get back to the West Coast by the middle of June...then we are headed for Winchester Bay, Oregon, Astoria, Oregon, Vancouver, BC, Alaska (on a Cruise) then Victoria, BC and then whatever comes next...
posted by Times and Travels by Charlie @ 8:46 AM
2 Comments:
At 2:45 PM,
Gordon Pierce said…
Charlie,
Great photos....but remember what sailors say about "red sky in the morning......
Stay safe on the roads. We really look forward to finally meeting after talking for so long now.
Safe travels,
Your friends in NM,
Gordon and Juanita
At 1:17 AM,
Jim Twamley said…
Wow great pictures! My wife Marilyn doesn't go anywhere without our birding books (we have West Coast, East Coast by Sibley and National Geographic Field Guide to Birds of North America)A good set of binoculars are a must as well. The Cannon anti-shake binoculars are the next pair we are going to buy. If you go down hwy 99 you will pass us as you go towards Bakersfield. We should be winding up here next week then off to Q and Gilla Bend. Best Regards Jim
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