On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether youāre traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
Good Morning All,
There are issues with the form; I’ll work on them later this week.
I hope everyone had a great New Year’s Day. I made my first post-mom souffle and it turned out extremely well. This is good as it’s a family tradition and she was a master. So that was a nice way to start the new year, good, but with lots to improve upon.
This morning, just a brief offering, but…birds!
I’m still getting myself technically re-organized; I had to move all my computer stuff to my family home (mom’s house) and getting all my tech working smoothly has eluded me. Today should hopefully be the final steps and I can then focus on more normal things like the site, form, servers, etc.
Where it was taken: Palo Duro State Park, Texas
When: Thursday Dec. 28, 2017
Commenter screenname: Albatrossity
Other notes or info about the picture: Greater Roadrunner, with patriotic eye coloration.
#2 Taken in Big Bend National Park, Texas
When: Christmas Day, 2017
Male Pyrrhuloxia, in the pre-dawn high desert light
Wow! As always, thank you so much. I’ve not been there since I was a young one, and then only in warmer months!
Thanks, and I hope you travel safely and send more!
One again, to submit pictures: the form is broken so Send an Email
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Alain, did you ever get my ādrunken lost midweek afternoon hooky, downtown Louisville like we were touristsā series I sent you from back in the fall?
If you didnāt, I can resend.
eclare
Great pictures, Big Bend NP is a treasure.
Mary G
Wow indeed! Albatrossity shows us amazing birds.
Alain the site fixer
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Iāll look. The past few weeks Iāve been very disorganized as Iāve been pulled into so many other directions, Iāll let you know later this week.
Quinerly
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Schlemazel
@Alain the site fixer:
I sent a couple of groups months ago but have not wanted to bug you. Lets us know when you are ready & I’ll resend also
Quinerly
@Alain the site fixer: Did you get Poco’s submission by email a few weeks back? He was struggling with big paws and tiny keyboard….I took over and sent it. It was one picture. Poco doing what he so loves to do.??
arrieve
These are gorgeous shots, Albatrossity!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Schlemazel: I know that I’ve sent in a couple, I can resend as well if need be.
Elizabelle
@arrieve: I always love Albatrossity’s photos. Happy January 2nd, peeps.
Good to see Raven had an epic evening at the Rose Bowl. Two overtimes. Wow. Hope he and bride bundled up well.
laura
@Quinerly: campaigning/goosing an unsuspecting crotch?
MikeifromArlington
Ever wonder whatās wrong with West Virginia? HERE is a good read on it.
John would probably like reading this if someone could poke him and bring it to his attention.
Quinerly
@laura: Ok, his second favorite thing.?
Mokum
@MikeifromArlington: Link does not work
Steeplejack
@MikeifromArlington:
Fixed link: “100-Year Capitalist Experiment in Appalachia.”
You have to erase/overwrite the http that comes presupplied in the URL address field.
Betty Cracker
Wow, what amazing photos!
Alain, I’m glad your souffle was a success — keeping traditions alive is important and can be a great comfort. Give yourself time to sort things out.
Major Major Major Major
Those are some great birds.
maurinsky
If we submitted on the form a few weeks ago, should we send an email instead?
Alain the site fixer
@maurinsky: nope, I should be able to get it working and publish what was successfully submitted. More about that later!
opiejeanne
@Elizabelle: Was it particularly cold in Pasadena today? Usually the temp is in the 60s or higher on Jan 1, even if it has started out as low as 30 degrees overnight some years.*
Or were you kidding?
The weather looked typically gorgeous for this time of year, the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl being the reason we have had a massive influx of Ohioan and others after a particularly nasty winter. I say “we” as if I still lived there.
ETA: looked it up, says the overnight low was in the 50s, the high was in the 70s. I think it was a lot colder in Atlanta yesterday. So glad the game turned out the way it did for him. I had no dog in that fight but I was on pins and needles the whole game.
opiejeanne
Great photos. The Pyrrhuloxia is called a desert cardinal and is a close kin of the pretty red cardinals you see on Christmas cards.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne: It was in the lower 70’s, but pretty hazy.
ETA: That was my excuse for not going hiking, and I’m stickin’ to it.
JPL
@opiejeanne: The photo was amazing, and it was new to me. What a beautiful bird.
Waratah
Beautiful close up of a Roadrunner Albatrossity. I have not seen one in Palo Dura Canyon, but it is always spring and summer when I camped there. The canyon would be a good place for birds to stay during winter. I have seen plenty on the plains and the pastures around my home.
J R in WV
Alain,
A week of so ago Major^4 mentioned that he thought all you needed to do for the submission batch feed was refresh the, uh, um, VPS or VIP or some acronym like that. Sure of the beginning V is all.
Sorry I don’t remember specifically, but I didn’t know what it stood for, and it went away since then. And of course, right now he’s in Lisbon, the lucky sod, where it’s 60 degrees right now.
It was -1 here last night, but the moon was great. It was -15 in Spencer, just north of Charleston. Not high country, just colder than snot last night. Still only 12…
Best of luck with your move and all, we did that last in 1994, from the old farmhouse to the newly built house, where we remain. Mrs says, “till they carry me out on a slab.” I tend to agree with the sentiment if not the imagry.
I successfully submitted a set of photos using the batch process back last month some time, take a look.
Suffragette City
Wow those pictures are awesome. We had a roadrunner visit our Dallas burb back yard once about 8 or 9 years ago. Was the first time I ever saw one.
opiejeanne
@Suffragette City: About 35 or maybe 40 years ago I had a roadrunner race my car for a short distance, probably less than a quarter mile. I had never seen one before except in the cartoon but recognized it immediately because of that; it was on a county road at the north end of Riverside, CA and he moved exactly like the roadrunner in the cartoon did. .
opiejeanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Don’t need an excuse with me. Right now I can hardly catch my breath I’m so badly congested. We both watched the Georgia game and wheezed encouragement at them for Raven’s sake.