Christmas in S. Tx

I hope everyone had a merry Christmas. Ours was spent with my Aunt, Uncle, and cousins down in South Texas. A little quail shooting, a little duck hunting and lots of time with family. In keeping with the major theme of this blog, some outdoor scenes follow.

Shelby the English Lab getting her boots on:


Later, a tired girl:


and no wonder, she had a busy day with lots of retrieves on both water and land:


Bull Nilgai skull:


and an example of the whole animal:


As you can see, there is a lot of water down there right now, which is how we came to be duck hunting. Wading out into flooded brush:



Black bellied whistling duck:


and a brush country sunset: