August 7th, 2009
the stars at night
I spent last week in the lovely town of Alpine attending a Writer’s Retreat. It was great, I’m motivated and I feel creative again. It was also exhausting so I feel like I’ve mostly been catching up on sleep this week.
We saw some fun stuff, like these cute donkeys. We were trying to figure out what donkeys were, and mostly we got it right.
Donkey’s can be interbred, but the offspring are sterile so while I’m not sure of the other two guys I took pictures of, this one is donkey and zebra:
We spent a lot of time on the Sul Ross campus where our class was held, and I saw something really funny there.
So he’s letting me get real close to get a picture and it’s not until I take this one that I understand that it’s a bug and not a pecan he’s got. Then it’s game time.
I saw this at the motel, very cool butterfly that I have been unable to identify so far, I guess a trip to the Life Sciences Library might be in my future.
We did go to Marfa on Friday and have dinner and poke around.
Then we went back to Alpine and stopped to see the lights. We did see them, but I could not get pictures. So small, so far away. I got this instead though.
It was great. I’d love to do it again next year!