Thursday 5/2/2013
Our "Little Princess" Mallery, turned 12 years old on May 2. New summer hair cut. |
According to a chart I saw in a Vet office, she is now 64 years old. She now is officially older than Joe and I. |
Any guesses what this is that I made? |
It's home made mustard that I froze, to pull out individually as needed. When you are on a Yeast Free diet, it is hard to find any prepared item that doesn't have sugar, yeast or vinegar. |
Friday 5/3/2013
On our way out of the park, we saw the Egyptian Geese under a RV. |
I got the zoom on the camera to get these pictures. They have a brown spot on their belly and pink legs. |
The bill is pink and black. |
On our way to our days destination, this dinosaur chased us down the road. Yicks! |
Actually this place is Dinosaur World. If we had our Nana boys with us, we would have stopped to check it out. They would love this place! |
Instead we continued down the road to Dinosaur Valley State Park. |
The cost into the park was $7.00 per adult. Joe had bought a Texas State Park pass earlier this year, so we got in free. Joe said with this entrance into the park, we broke even with the pass. |
As we drove into the park, I could see some dinosaurs at play. These dinosaurs were once on display at the Texas State Fair. |
We drove first to Track Site 1-Blue Hole. The trail to the site is very short, but very treacherous. |
Joe points out where it is in the water. |
This is what a Acrocanthosaurus looked like. |
Looking up the Paluxy River, we could see a father and his kids wading in the water. Burrr! |
This is the rock we had to climb over to get back up the trail. Joe had to give me a push to get me up and over the rock. |
Back at the parking lot we heard some banging sounds from the dumpster. |
Joe took a peak and found this little guy had climbed in for lunch, but was now in a pickle. |
The trail down to Site 2 Tracks was much easier to transverse, though Mallery was not too keen on hopping from rock to rock. |
Dogs are allowed in the park. We decided to visit the park on this day because it was cool , which Mallery prefers. |
After we crossed the stepping stones we came to another area where there were dinosaur tracks. |
Mallery stands in front of one to show you the size of the track. |
In another area, we see saw more tracks.under water. |
Millions of years ago, there was an increase in volcanic activity. The resulting heat caused the sea floor to rise into the lowlands of Texas. |
These are Pleurocoelus tracks. |
This is what a Pleurocoelus dinosaur looked like. |
At one time Glen Rose was called Dinosaur Beach. Te He! |
We decided to get some exercise, so we got Mallery's stroller out of the trunk and walked on the trail to Track Site 3. |
The trail took us through some native prairies. Along the trail, a sign told us that only 4 % of the native prairies are left in the United States, due to over farming and urban development. |
After giving up on finding the track in Track Site 3, we continued on the trail to the campground. "What in the world is that"! |
A toilet sat in someones site , which said Father- Daughter on it, as well as Troquois. OK, Joe do you need to use the restroom? |
We turned around and followed the trail back to our car. We saw a couple of these green striped lizard on the trail on the way back. |
On the way out of the park, I had Joe stop at the wildflower patch. |
Blanketflower/Firewheel |
I couldn't ID this flower. Anyone know ? |
Indian Paintbrush |
Again, not sure the name of this wildflower/weed found in Dinosaur Valley State Park. |
Same wildflower/weed as previous picture, but bloomed. |
Last we stopped at the Visitor Center in the park to see the dinosaur tracks for those who can not do the trails. |
Pleurocoelus dinosaur track |
When we got home, we stopped at the park office to see if we had receive any mail that day. As soon as Joe got out of the car, Mallery laid down in his seat and was out. |
She is use to sleeping off and on most days, so when she goes with us, it's a long day with no snoozes. |
Diane, you do marvelous at documenting your trips.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing. We too have been there and found ourselves back in time, thinking about life during that period.
Tic
Thanks Tic, Blogging takes a lot of time and energy, but it is worth it if others can benefit as well as we have record of all the places we have seen in the last 4 1/2 years. If I didn't blog, I would have forgot at least half of what I have seen!
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