This collection is a big bucket that carries a lot of stuff! Out and About chronicles anywhere and anything I see or experience when I’m just Out and About. This bucket is image heavy with people and places.
The Perseid meteor shower 2013 is starting to peak now. Every August the best-known meteor shower, makes its appearance. This year, the Perseid meteor shower is expected to reach its peak overnight on Monday (Aug. 12). I got out tonight to see if I could capture a few streaking visitors from space. Not much success, but considering I […]
Houston Commute Traffic is infamous. We are not LA, or NY, but we have plenty of bottlenecks, and slowdowns everyday on the freeways. Distance Driven 21 miles. How many roundtrip miles do you drive every day to work? The average downtown Houston worker commutes 21 miles each way, round tripping 42 miles each and every
Zamberlan Vioz GT Hiking Boots are what I have been looking for in a great pair of hiking boots. I have been looking since my last trip to Big Bend because my old boots reached their limit on that trip. Reading and researching is good. But there is a time to sort out your choices by
Pan Starrs Comet C2011L4. (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System). The pictures are not great, but with the low elevation and backlight from the setting sun, comet is difficult to even see with the naked eye. Binoculars make it easier to pick up and the camera does a decent job of capturing this visitor
Lower Pecos River Rock Art in Seminole Canyon has many fine examples of prehistoric rock art. Most of the art originated about 4,000 years ago. Dating places it in the Middle Archaic period. Ancient artists prepared paints from minerals mixed with animal fats. Additionally the artists constructed brushes from leaves, sotol or yucca. Lower Pecos
Lower Pecos Rock Art – Halo Shelter Updated: Feb 8th – Added a gallery with many additional pictures on this part of my trip Firstly I was lucky enough to get a little time to make a trip to West Texas again this week. My first stop was an overnight in Seminole Canyon State Park