High School Sports

   Football in Texas has become the measure of a community. Its standing amongst peers. The win/lose record becomes all too important to maintain that place for a high school. The younger athletes on the Junior Varsity get little of the pressure, but luckily it is more about learning the game and progressing in abilities and they grow in size and strength. Still fun to watch the kids play

Trying to stretch it out.

 and periodically perform amazing feats of strength and sheer will.

Breaking for a little room.

Under the lights of a Texas evening.

Lining up for another play.

Block, fly and pass all at once.

Sitting on the runner still stops them.

Piling on for a tackle

The Great Migration

  Shuffling around in  cactus garden at an assignment today and a bright orange flash of color flittered by me. Off in pursuit I went trying to catch a frame of the butterfly. It finally came to light on a bloom and spread it s wings allowing me to confirm that the Monarchs have begun to arrive on their great migration  south. Best of luck my fair traveller and may a tail wind help you along the way.

A Monarch butterfly takes a rest on its long migration south.