Black Mesa, Camping

 We stayed at the Black Mesa Preserve in Northwestern Oklahoma. Camping here was very nice. It was so quiet and the lake wasn't full, so there weren't boats out on it. Just very nice, calm, and slow living for the time we were there. What fun it was to see the boys running around like lunatics or just sitting in front of the campfire. What a great escape!


AGAIN with the wrong dates!!! NOT in April/May of 14... oy vey!

This was during the summer of 2015, not sure of the exact dates.

 One of the little fingers of Lake Carl Etling

 We had a wonderful tree to sit under, with plenty of shade during the day.

 Petrified wood.

We weren't quite sure what this was, thinking it might have been a movie set. Whatever it is, kind of cool!

Sunflowers

 Sunflower Fields

Near Lubbock, Texas.
My son was in Summer Camp, Band Camp to be exact, at the branch of Texas A&M University near Amarillo, Tx... These pictures were taken on the drive home from leaving him... This is the first time he has been to sleep away camp. He's always been to camp either in town or in a town with family, so he doesn't have to be on his own... I don't know why I have been so very protective of him, he's very mature... and heck, my daughter was at sleep away camp when she was just 8. It was so different with her... and it was Girl Scout camp.


You might notice the date on these... Well, you might guess that it is WRONG...
The dead giveaway  might be the picture content... mature sunflowers... in the Panhandle of Texas... NOT known for growing sunflowers that would bloom in April...
We have this camera that... all I can say... is that it is WONKY!
If you take the batteries out, it goes to the build date... and someone obviously didn't set the time/date right... so, the pics say April of 14...  Correct date? Not so much...