LAKE AMISTAD.

Rent these boats for BIG bucks. www.foreverhouseboats.com

The lake level is currently the highest it's been in 17 years!

World class bass fishing!!

These 7 ft. tall bronze eagles are on the dam. They symbolize and mark the border between Mexico and Texas.

Amistad Reservoir has 540 miles of shoreline in Texas.....and 350 miles in Mexico. The lake is 67,000 square miles. The reservoir was created for flood control, water storage, power generation and recreation in 1969 with completion of the dam. The Rio Grande is navigable for about 75 miles behind the dam. Boating, water skiing, fishing, camping and archeological sites are major attractions. The park offers year round adventure. You can explore the lake and the Pecos and Devil's Rivers in motorboats, sailboats, kayaks, houseboats and scuba gear. Steep limestone cliffs, some over 200 ft. high, rise above the Pecos River and the Upper Rio Grande. There is also fishing, birding, canoeing and bow hunting.

AROUND THE TOWN SOME MORE...Del Rio.

My friend who grew up here says that this cantina was a really rough place. It has a long history of inhabitants and it's share of tall tales. I posted a picture of this place in my Diez-Y-Sies blog. This place fascinates me to no end. It's one of the few buildings that survived the flood of 1998. I intend to find out more about it. It is closed now. Who will occupy it next? It comes with a white cat. I WANT THESE WALLS TO TALK TO ME!!

This sign belongs with the building shown in the next picture.

I feel very drawn to Brown Plaza and everything about it.

T'other side of Brown Plaza.

The Old Roswell Hotel. It is now The Roswell Housing Complex...for old folks. When I am 70 I will live there and dry my just washed undies in the window.

Don't you love it? This is downtown by an old bank.

This person was born in Italy in 1851. There was a large Italian community in Del Rio. They planted the grape vines, farmed and were excellent stone masons. Many of their buildings still stand today. Our 3 cemeteries are kept up just beautifully! I took alot of photos there but won't bore you w/ them. I am so fond of cemeteries...they are history.

There are alot of wonderful old houses in Del Rio. I just drive around takin' pictures of them.

Another good one. Kept up very well.

Not kept up so well...but I have high hopes for Ol' Nick's Barbershop. It is for sale. You can make alot of money charging $4. for a haircut...anyone? If those walls could talk.

DIEZ Y SEIS-BROWN PLAZA, DEL RIO.

Later in the evening the wind began to blow like crazy. Check out all the dirt particles in my photo. Most of the food vendors left at that point.

I've never seen a mariachi band with a harpist! They came down into the crowd and played to the Queens.

Brown Plaza was dedicated on Cinco De Mayo 1908 and has served as a gathering spot for musical concerts, political rallies and formal promenades. It was restored in 1969. George Washington Brown (1836-1908) was the donor of the plaza. It gets flooded sometimes. It's a lovely place and we enjoyed it very much. Gene sees his students everywhere we go.

AROUND DEL RIO.

Bridge over Lake Amistad.

1890 House...a closed B&B. It's for sale.

Villa Del Rio B&B.

Grape vines at Val Verde Winery.

This building is just off Brown Plaza. It is near a creek and this area gets flooded every few years.

WHITEHEAD MUSEUM...again.

RANDOM THOUGHTS & PHOTOS-AKA We have alot of junk.

Bennie HAS a pillow. Bennie IS a pillow. Harold has NO pillow.

I just don't know where to put it all. Our fence is in such sad shape that we don't want to hang anything on it and it may be replaced in the coming months anyways.

This is the only thing in our backyard and it looks like it's dyin'. Hackberry trees are shit trees...weeds...but it's a place to hang some stuff.

Bennie spends all his outside time right here in this spot. He is on "cat duty"...there are alot next door.

Gene's fountains are set up and we enjoy them.

More yard junk.

WTF IS THIS? I can't find anything like him online. Will it turn into a flying bug? Is it an actual caterpillar? Del Rio has a TON of bugs....most of them weird.

This picture is for my sister Jane. She gave us these coffee bags. Our garage is decorated...aren't they cool? The bag 2nd from the right is hand painted. They are from Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Hawaii.

Our back patio where we spend alot of time.
OTHER SMALL NEWS: We went to Pecos last Saturday, spent the night and returned to Del Rio Sunday with the truck and car packed up very full. We hardly left room for the dogs! Visited with the neighbors and George, Peggy, Rosie & Randy came by to see us. We were invited to dinner at Debbie and Neal Thomas' house. Great food and nice to visit w/ them and Bessie and "Carl the plumber".
I'm glad to have my car again. Had it here 2 days and now it appears to need some doctorin'. A light is blinking. Got out the owners manuel and it says the transmission needs attention. Aw hell...it's only got 216,600 miles on it. PLEASE car...hang on one more year. Then we'll have the pick up truck paid off and can buy something else.
EVERYBODY in this town is getting a new roof. They look O.K. to me. Damn, those roofers are loud and busy and HOT! There was a big hail storm right before we moved here.
The Del Rio newspaper is daily and small and in English and then the same news in Spanish. I'd like to take Spanish classes.
A couple of hummingbirds have found my feeder that I just hung up. Wonder WHERE my hummers back in Pecos are finding food...at Zelma's house of course!
There are alot of fire ants here...I forgot what they are like...OW! It is 68% humidity...I forgot what that is like also.
I hope to see alot of Monarch butterflies in a couple of months moving thru here on their way to spend the winter in Mexico. 
That's all the news from DEL RIO: QUEEN OF THE RIO GRANDE".