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Sunday, January 24, 2010 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM

Taking Fright, Northern Pintails, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, January 24, 2010
Taking Fright, Northern Pintails, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, January 24, 2010

Startling how some days one can get lucky, swing the camera and pull the trigger, timed just so....

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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