Burrowing Owl

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I have slowly been crossing Owls off my list over the years.  This was a lifer.  I hadn’t been shooting much wildlife since moving to the Great State of Texas.  Mostly been playing golf, but when the eagles and snowy owls started showing up back home, the itch got the better of me.

Joined a couple Texas Facebook pages and when a Burrowing Owl appeared, game on to get a chance to cross another one off the life list.

He is located 3.5 hours South by South East of Dallas.  I spent over 7 hours in the car driving and looking for him, but finally found him and got a couple keepers.  They say he will stay around until end of February.   This is his third year in that area.  I would guess him to be about 8 inches tall.

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Have a wildlife Hotspot in Texas, feel free to drop me a line and we can go photograph it.

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Life I good and I am blessed!

Kent

Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden 2

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Sharon and a couple of our friends wanted to venture down to the Arboretum.  I have been getting a lot of interest on my I haven’t been posting or doing much Photography.  The weather is cooling off so the four of us headed to the Arboretum with my trusty Canon 5DMK3 paired with my favorite walking around lens 24-70mm.

We went mostly to see the Autumn pumpkin displays.  The pumpkins were looking a little old and tired but they already had the 12 days of Christmas setup.  I didn’t photograph any of the Christmas stuff, as they are doing special night walks when I can get better photos of the lit displays.

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A local artist was playing guitar and selling CD’s.  Made me flash back to when Matt and I were into guitars.KJ5D2474-FrameShopAs mentioned in my first post about the Arboretum, there were even more people doing their Quinceanera photos.  I took a chance and squeezed off a couple shots of this young lady.KJ5D2485-FrameShop

I found it only fitting to take one of the Birthday Girl Princess Sharon in her carriage.KJ5D2489-FrameShop KJ5D2497-FrameShop

Larry and Kelly ended up moving with our employer and moved into my subdivision 2 houses down.  Our Subdivision is starting to feel like “Little Bloomington” or Bloomington South.KJ5D2502-FrameShop

Not a fan of being on the other side of the camera.  As most of you know I am once again dieting and this photo makes me diet even harder.  Look at the gut on that one.  You never really know what kind of photo you are going to get when you hand your camera away, but felt this one was decent one of us.KJ5D2504-FrameShop

As the weather cools off I’m going to make an attempt to start finding the local Texas wildlife and posting more.  I have a lot going on with the pool construction, but time will tell!

Thanks for following along in my journeys and my world through my lens.

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Life is good and I am blessed.

Kent

Wylie Rodeo Days 2015

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Went up to Wylie Rodeo Days this past Saturday night.  The event was very well organized.  We parked at the Wylie Football stadium and they used air conditioned school buses to get the people over the rodeo event.

The rodeo started with a prayer and a tribute to the 9/11 fallen.  I found it to be very well done and touching.  I have always been very proud to be an American and Texas is full or state and country pride.  Something lacking in Illinois.

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Cowboys of all ages.  This was the youngest at only FOUR years old.PBKJ2560-FrameShop PBKJ2591-FrameShop

Putting on the brakes!PBKJ2625-FrameShop_1Bullwhip action.

I left before the barrel races or bull riding.  Maybe next year.  If you have’t been to a rodeo before I would strongly suggest this one next year if you are in the area.

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Next up on the list of Texas events the Plano Balloon Festival

Life I good and I am blessed!

Kent

 

Layla visits Texas and the Fort Worth Zoo

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I was really excited and happy to find out Ashly and Layla wanted to come to see our new home in Sachse Texas while Matt went to Colorado on a guy mountain bike trip.  The blog write up on Matt’s trip along with some incredible mountain photos can be seen over on his blog at www.cyclesinlife.com

The gilrs got in Thursday early afternoon and we hung out around the house and went down to the pool for Layla to have a little Splish Splash time.

Friday I took the girls into the office to see where I work and to show off Layla to fellow co-workers.  I had asked Ashly what kinds of food she wanted while she was down here and all she said was I want your home cooking.  Friday afternoon we hit the grocery stores and planned out several home cooked meals.

Saturday started off with homemade Belgium waffles and then a drive over to the Fort Worth Zoo.  It was a very nice, large and clean zoo.  It got up to the mid 90’s but plenty of animals were very active.

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I have tried several times to get some decent photos of a male wood duck, and finally got one at the zoo.

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I got the privilege of buying little miss Layla her first pair of real live cowgirl boots.

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Sunday and Monday were spent shopping for Layla fall and winter clothes at the Allen outlet mall.

All in all I think all the girls had a nice weekend and I got to spoil them a little.  I worked on getting her to say PaPaw all weekend, but mostly just came out da or dad.

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She is growing up fast!  I miss them already!

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Next up on the list of Texas events are Wylie Rodeo Days, and Plano Balloon Festival

Life I good and I am blessed!

Kent