The future astronauts.

I was going outside, to set up my tripod for some moon shots later tonight,
when suddenly a jet shoots straight up behind the moon.

Then heads straight west, towards the setting sun.

And finally three others break sonic speeds, right over the horizon.

No, those are not UFO's over the San Luis Valley.

They're just pilots in training.
But, at least the first one is aspiring to reach the moon, and perhaps the sun, 
as a future astronaut!

Watching daylight go

near 5:30 PM, in southern Colorado.

"Amarillo by morning...

up from San Antone"
was the song we used to sing while trying to stay awake when we drove up to Colorado.

That was back in the days of 55 and 60 mph speed limits.

But now that we can drive at 75 for most of the trip (and 80 in IH10), its more like…..

"Trinidad by morning….."

Yes, thinking of a combination of the mesas of the SW

and clear Rocky Mountain snows

in the early morning gives you a boost to keep on driving 


and make those 765 miles as the sun comes up.

Who would have thought...

......that San Antonio has the first bookless library in the country!
 

 

Its on the other side of town, so we have not seen it yet ( We copied these pics off the web).

Apparently the costs of the I-Pads that are lent out, the computers on site, and the purchasing of the e-books by the city was the same as just purchasing paper books.

But it was a lot cheaper to get space in a strip mall than build a whole building to house books.

Check it out:

http://www.click2houston.com/news/san-antonio-library-offers-glimpse-of-bookless-future/-/1735978/23758560/-/a7nm9oz/-/index.html

It's surprising to us that half the e-reader machines are checked out at one time and none have been stolen or damaged.

Happy New Year

from San Antonio

where 250,000 showed up at the Hemishere Plaza to celebrate the New Year.

But, this year, because of the recent rains, they allowed people to fire off their own fireworks.

In the neighborhoods, it seemed another quarter million people were firing away,
almost making the ground tremble!

Happy New Year!

(PS These are pictures I got off the  Internet. But, it sure looks like a good party to photograph!)

A Merry Christmas to you

No, it's not a Renoir

it's people just sitting along the Riverwalk in San Antonio.

And the lights hanging down form the trees…..
doesn't it make it look like it's some sort of magical rain?

Well, it's quite enjoyable riding in a boat as carolers serenade you 
form bridges overhead

or singing on the passing boats!

May you have a Merry Christmas, from down in San Antonio,

where you can still find a Christmas celebration!

South Texas' Autumn

From our Thanksgiving blog, the stories of the big cold front coming our way, and the fact that we are approaching the Winter Solstice,
you might think we too are in winter.

While this is what you'll see if you look for it,

you will notice that

there is a lot of green still here.

And when the temperature reached 84 yesterday,

even our snowman was wearing her tennis hat!