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Friday, February 12, 2010 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM

Smile!, Sandhill Crane, Bosque National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, February 12, 2010
Smile!, Sandhill Crane, Bosque National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, February 12, 2010

A day off

I took so many pictures yesterday I need a day (at least!) to try to sort and catalog them. So after an especially productive morning shoot at the roost I decided to hole up for the day back at the park and work on them. Somehow I've got to decide how I want to share more of these wonderful pictures with you.

I got a little behind in posting here and you might want to click back a few days to see what I have added since you were here last.

Night camp

Site 16 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM

Sell Them Down the River

Brown had in his camp a fine-looking Negro, who said he had run away from his master in Platte County, Missouri, because the man was going to sell him and his wife to a dealer who would take them south to the Louisiana sugar plantations. The average Missouri Negro looked upon being sold south as one or two degrees worse than being sent straight to hell. This viewpoint was fostered by the masters, who always threatened, when things went wrong, to sell them down the river. ...

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