I did some computer work while J slept in. I had my normal breakfast, then worked up a blog entry. J left around 10:40 to go for a walk. I finished some computer work, then left around 11:05 and ..

Walked out to the main road along the path through the desert and then walked back along the road.

I returned to the RV at 11:45. I did some computer work, then had lunch around 12:15.

We went over to our friend Andy Baird's rig around 1:15 to learn how to restring our blinds. He had two blinds that needed to be restrung, and it was great to watch, and help, him restring his before we restrung ours.

The three of us came back to our RV and restrung one of our blinds. It was fairly easy to do after "practicing" on two others. We finished the blind repair around 4:25. I left in the Jeep by myself around 4:40 and ...

Went to the overlook just north of the boat ramp to photograph what looked like was becoming a nice sunset. The golden light on the mountains to the east across Elephant Butte Lake (below left) was nice. While waiting for the color to form on the clouds, a pair of grebes danced below me on the lake! The color on the clouds to the east didn't get very intense, but I liked the layers in the image below right.


I brought the Jeep back to our site and walked directly over ...

To Andy's rig around 5:15 where J was waiting. We watched the second 50-minute segment of Anatomy For Beginners on DVD. In it, Gunther von Hagens, the inventor of plastination and the director of Body Worlds, continued a public autopsy that was documented by Channel 4 of the UK. This second segment was on circulation, and the lungs were fascinating! From the drawings I've seen, I was expecting them to be shaped more or less like kidneys. Instead, they were quite tapered at the front inside and bottom edges to fit over other parts — a much better packaging solution. There was also an isolated artery system from another cadaver that was created by filling the arteries with a polymer or resin, and then after that had cured, everything else was removed. The three-dimensional network was amazing!

We returned to the RV around 6:15, and I started dinner. I downloaded the images I took this afternoon while things cooked.

We had dinner around 6:30 of Bertolli Italian Sausage & Rigatoni (one of our favorites) and Texas Toast.

After J did the dishes, we talked about our near-term travel plans. I selected and processed two images for the blog, then started to work up the blog entry.