Featherstone Quiltworks

Today I thought I would just share a few pictures from Texas.  These are from Mustang Island’s Port Aransas, and we have a fabulous birding center right in town — my favorite place.  I really wanted to get to the National Seashore on North Padre, which is only a half hour from us, but we just ran out of time.  Oh, well, next trip…

Here is a Great Egret coming in for a landing.  I was up in kind of an observation tower when I took this photo:

And another pelican picture — this guy is coming in for a landing also.

And speaking of landings, this was our view as we were coming into Minneapolis:

We broke through one layer of clouds, and we were in a clear space between the clouds.  Very cool:

This trip we saw millions of either small butterflies or moths.  They had kind of the coloring of a Monarch, but not quite.  Must have been migrating.  I have also never seen so many dragonflies. 

You know how you often see them flying “together”?  They were impossible to photograph in flight, at least for me, but here is a pair at rest:

Something else we saw at the birding center that we hadn’t seen before was this blue crab.  He was very big, and you can see by his “dust” trail, he really does move sideways!

–Sue