THIS-N-THAT.....

I saw this bird this morning in the backyard. Looked it up in the ol' bird book. I didn't take this picture...got it off the internet. It is a Vermilion Flycatcher...not to be confused with the beautiful, yellow, screechy Kiskadee Flycatcher (of which we have many). Spring is really here. Trees green, hummingbirds arrived yesterday and I hung up my 2 feeders. They are already battling it out over the nectar. UPDATE: These birds are trying to drink out of the hummingbird feeders! Don't know if they are getting anything.

My snapdragons are sparse, but pretty colors.

The first gardenia of the season. This bud was on the bush for four months and hung on all winter. The plant is small but I can see TEN more buds coming!

An Odessa teacher and a Del Rio teacher trading classroom stories in Pecos. Alonzo taught with Gene at the TYC in Pyote. Gene's 'spring break' knee pads are so stylish.

Two Steve's-west Texas boys watching other west Texas boys find a gas leak in the alley in Pecos.