JUST ANOTHER SATURDAY???

Due to various reasons, we'd gotten off schedule with the adventures! Life is interfering with the fun, if you can imagine such a thing. There have been birthdays to celebrate, sick family members to visit in the hospital, emergency chores to attend to at home, promises to fulfill, meetings to attend, and you get the picture. Or in this case, the picture was NOT gotten.

An adventure was long overdue. Saturday we headed west of Fort Worth to Springtown, Texas population about 3,000. It was the weekend of their annual Wild West Festival in the downtown square. Didn't take long to see all the sights, hear all the sounds, and visit all the booths. Harry bought a slingshot and I bought some soup/dip mixes. That was the extent of our Wild West celebration.

We aimed the SUV toward Jacksboro, Texas seat of Jack County to take a photo of the courthouse. We also made a scheduled stop at the Fort Richardson State Park which is the ruins of a post Civil War Army facility. It opened about 1867 and closed by 1880. The large building in the background is the hospital.



A visit to the Commissary provided these moss covered stones. The lush verdancy spoke to my lens!

I have no idea what these flowers are called, but they truly look like miniature pineapples.

Next stop was Possum Kingdom Lake. Coming around a bend in the road provided the following photograph. Some were taken through the dirty windshield. Others were through the open window of the truck.

The group of bucks numbered about four. These were the only bucks we saw. The rest of the deer were does and fawns. We saw upwards of 40 deer in all. It was a great photographic experience.

The most points on a single buck which we were able to count was eleven.

The fawns are beginning to lose their spots.

This little deer posed nicely for the camera.

This doe was amazing. She was curious enough to walk past the front of the truck, stop and look at us as we looked out the open window.

She crept closer to the window than we ever thought possible. We could see her eyelashes and whiskers.

Another beautiful doe takes her turn at posing for her portrait.

Can you tell I had a marvelous time? It truly was an adventure, thanks in no small way to a very accommodating sidekick!

Until the next time...