Unable to put together a well-organized post, I suspect I have a case of writer’s block.

Rather than succumb to this insidious ailment, I’ll write SOMETHING!  Throw a few photos in.  It may not be well-organized but it’s a post!

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To start us off . . . .

Bite Me, Reggie’s pet flea, isn’t going to be with us much longer. . . .

Bridget calmly and methodically works on her pine cone projects.

 

 

 

 

I sneak up on her to take a photo and her ears immediately go back.  She knows what I’m up to.

The looks says, “You really can’t help yourself, can you, RVSue.”

We take our usual walks around the campground.

I  grab photos of blooming bushes and wildflowers.

Bridget waits patiently in her car.  Reggie pulls on his tether.

“Okay, I’m done.”

We push off, but it isn’t long before I see another shot I have to take!

And another one!

Reggie climbs rocks at a campsite.

One afternoon while lounging under the pine boughs . . . .

A brightly colored bird cocks his head and looks down at me from his perch.  I run up the slope to the Best Little Trailer to get my camera.  When I return, he’s gone, of course.

Oh, there he is.  Way over there.  Maybe I can catch him with my zoom.

He flies from pine tree to pine tree, flitting from branch to branch.

I sprint hither and yon, leaping over fallen logs, hiding behind trees, slipping on dried pine needles. Bridget and Reggie follow me with their eyes, perplexed by my sudden burst of activity.

After several tries my camera catches him!  The pic is fuzzy but it’s good enough for identification!

Isn’t he a beauty?  A tanager, I think.

I open up the All About Birds site and confirm that he’s a Western Tanager.  You can listen to his song and learn about Western Tanagers at this link to All About Birds.

On Memorial Day the crew and I drive south to Recapture Lake.

You can see the lake as you drive north of Blanding on Route 191 (shown above).

When we drove past it on our way to this camp, it was a bright blue.  Today it’s paler, subdued, a quieter shade of blue.  Appropriate reverence on this Memorial Day . . . .

Young people eagerly seek summer by taking the first dip of the season.  That water has to be cold!  Their dog swims and splashes with them.

Being only a few miles from Blanding, we drive into town and pick up some groceries.

I score Cara Cara oranges from California and red grapefruits from Texas.  What a country!

Oh, what’s this?  A sale on boneless, skinless chicken breasts.  $1.99 a pound.  Not bad for a small town grocery . . . . 

I stock up and we return to camp.

Yes, I bought a rotisserie chicken, too.  Probably the worst I’ve ever bought.

What did they do?  Microwave it?  Oh, well . . . The crew isn’t picky.  Bridget and Reggie love it.

Anticipating we will move camp soon, I perform a few tasks. 

The water spigot is right next to our campsite.  I use a one-gallon jug and a flexible funnel to fill up the BLT’s fresh water tank.

I check the air pressure of our tires and the Perfect Tow Vehicle’s fluids.  I wash the windshield and remove Reggie’s slobber marks from the passenger window.

I rearrange some items in the back of the PTV — always fighting an avalanche back there!

Armed with a shovel I hunt the woods near our campsite for canine poops to bury.  I putter around our home.   There are only a few more things to accomplish and then we’ll hitch up and pull out.

Now to find the motivation to leave this pleasant, piney woods camp . . . .

rvsue

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