It is getting little cooler here now with early morning temps in the low 60's but it makes it easier for me to think Christmas. I can't feel it when it's 80 degrees.
These are real trees that are flocked. Very popular here.
The attedant lady says the pink and purple ones are favorites with little girls. She's just out of purple just now but will spray up some new ones tomorow.
$40 for any flocked tree.
Neil volunteers at the Iwo Jima museum and Monday they invited us to a Christmas party. I guess if you have tank in the yard at Christmas, thats where you hang the lights and stuff, but it doesn't seem too much like Peace on Earth, Goodwill To Man.
This is a gun also in front of the museum and Neil is pointing out a bullet hole.
Now if you look at the bullet hole from the gunner's side you can see the bullet must have gone through the gunner and exited through the shield. We hope we are wrong about that.
This is Joe and he was at the battle of Iwo Jima. Since the battle was fought in 1945, I have to ssume this gentleman is at least 80 yers old. Looks prety good doesn't he? Not the right time to talk to him about his army days, but i would like to some day.
We went to the Brownsville Resaca bird sanctuary and as you can see, the tram was not crowded that day. In fact there was only Neil and I and a lady with her son, but it was sure worth the ride because that was the cutest little boy! I asked Mom the boy's name and I thought she said Daddy-o. She was Italian, Mexican, and Jewish so maybe it was her strange accent that kept me from finding out until much later that the boy's name was Dario.
Dario and Rubin, the tram driver.
That device on Dario's arm is a bug saver.
The Ebony tree is a very common tree here and has these pods. Look at the hole in the first empty space in the pod. Neil noticed that the holes would be right in the center of each one of the beans in the pod.
We were thinking some sort of insect-eating bird or animal, but Rubin, the tram guy says that the holes are made by a moth that lays it's eggs in the pod.
Speaking of meat eating birds, this hawk loiters outside the hedge where we have a bird feeder --there's a gazillion sparrows in that hedge-- and daily takes one home for lunch. I believe Neil is setting the birds up for a slaughter.
Coming home from the birding place, we saw what looks like a brand new railroad track. I don't think I have ever known of a new line being added to any railroad.
Look at the railroad ties..they are synthetic stuff, not wood. The actual rail has not been laid yet.
. A little research leads me to believe that it is part of a new rail connection to Mexico that has been in the making for several years and is scheduled to open this month. It is called the Brownsville West Railrod bypass International Bridge and will cross the Rio Grand River into Mexico.
The whole thing is 8 miles long. I wonder why I stumble onto this stuff and never hear about it on the news.
This kitten showed up at our lot this week.....just barely old enough to be weaned. She was starving. We fed her and took her around to try to find a home for her.... one lady said she would try her out , but sent her back the next day and so we had to take her, (the kitten, not the lady), to the rescue. I hope she found a home.
There are so many stray pets here. I don't understand how people can do that. My theory is that people drop the pets off near the RV parks thinking old people=soft hearts . They may be right.
John, the neighbor who moved to Louisanna, left me this plant which has just began to blossom and I find it is a beautiful orange hibiscus. Thanks, John.
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