North on Alamo Creek

It was in the 50s (!) today and overcast most of the day - perfect for hiking, so I trekked around for about 3 hours up Alamo Creek and found 2 old homesteads. Then headed back to the campground to watch birdies but wound up talking to visitors for quite a while. Back to work at the visitor center tomorrow. :-)

Homestead #1

Homestead #2 - There is nothing to help show scale but portions of the walls were 5 feet high

Homestead #2 from another angle. Note the large piece of wood that was probably a door lintel.

Winchester Repeating Arms Company, Bridgeport, Connecticut probably made for military in 1944? Could not find out what W.C. F stands for without seeing catalogues.

This was about 3/4" diameter blue & white ceramic(?) marble that I found at the site of an old rock home. I've never seen anything like this so I placed it in the wall of the home so hopefully no one will steal it. Since the site is rarely visited there were lots of large pieces of lavender, green, blue and brown glass, 4" and larger pieces of broken dishware, miscellaneous metal cans & pans, and the bullet casing.

Amazing poo! The pellets were all the size of jackrabbit stuff but formed into cubes - a conundrum!

Most of the leaves on this yucca looked like they had been removed by a scalpel, but it was probably an animal such as a deer that had eaten them.

Red-naped or Yellow-bellied Sapsucker in the campground.

This ladder-backed woodpecker was hammering away on the Russian Thistle and finally got up on a tree to find bugs.

"Hawk in the Hood" yesterday when we had sunshine. I think he wanted to join our happy hour. :-)