Had a few pictures I didn't post the other day. We picked tomatoes and basil for sauce. Made a couple of quarts to freeze. We've still got lots of tomatoes to pick, so will have to make salsa in a day or two.

Today, we took a drive south of town, looking for side roads that would take us down to the river. After half an hour on a marginal dirt track, through scrub desert of sand and salt cedar, we came out at the river. At this point, it's right at the base of the Caballo Mountains. Cattle were bunched up in the shallows and we saw several pairs of great blue herons. They always stayed just out of camera range, flying off ahead of us as we drove along through the brush beside the river. I did manage to get a couple of shots, but they don't do justice to these magnificent birds. We also saw what I think were egrets. Same size and build as the herons, but white. Annie got out and poked about a little, but thought every rustle of the wind in the bushes was a rattle snake so didn't venture too far from the car.