Sunday, July 6, 2008

Some rain and our amazing friends


We have had several short bursts of rain from isolated showers moving through the region. Not enough to quench the thirsty, cracked earth, but enough to perk the trees up a little bit. However, it is at hot as heck as ever, but that's Texas for you. Charley and I have been swimming more lately, and I've even joined him on the morning walk to the corner store in Lytton Springs to visit our friend Pricilla. She took the weekend off, so we just visited with the regular locals and Robert, the guy who works at the store when Pricilla doesn't. There is a wierd coccoon of some type attached to one of our agaves - it looks like a mass of leaves, dirt, twigs stuck together - somehow. We are just waiting to see what will come out. The image is above.

We have these amazing friends who are real explorers - Matt Oliphant and Nancy Pistole. They travel the world exploring caves, and are good friends of Charley's and more recently mine as well. They are currently in Gabon with National Geographic, to explore the rainforest caves and help get them documented as a UNESCO World Heritage site. You can check them out at the blog http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/gabon-caves
Their description of the food in Ghana, where they stopped on their way to Gabon, included the words "gorilla snot, oily soup, organs, chewy mass" . Sometimes they do suffer gastrointestinally to do the amazing things they do.

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