June 6, 2012: Our Big Adventure...

June 6
Larry and I have begun a great adventure across the United States.  I thought I would be able to keep up with a blog a day as to what we've done and seen but I just can't.  I can't take my eyes from the scenery as it changes from our pick up window.  We have been in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and are currently in Texas.  While each state has spaces of scenery which stays the same so long it can get monotonous they each also have their own depth of beauty.  I just can't look to my laptop long enough to type.

I teased our kids when we left California saying I hoped we would encounter some rough and different weather.  Being a Central California girl all my life I'm not used to change in the weather.  I was pleasantly surprised yesterday afternoon when some big white clouds began drifting across the sky.  An hour later we were in a rainstorm.  I didn't take the picture above but it is much like the sky was yesterday.  When another hour passed it was getting dark and God blessed us with a magnificent display of lightening.  In the pick up we could only hear faint rumblings of thunder.

When we pulled into our motel last night the storm continued.  I was standing under the shelter at the front door with our suitcases as Larry found a place to park the pick up.  God put the finishing touch on my perfect day with a lightening strike that lit up the whole sky and a clap of thunder so loud it took my breathe away.  Out from one of the trees flew a huge flock of birds.  I'd noticed their beautiful singing before the thunder.  Now they were silent.  There were so many of them, I'm guessing at least two hundred, that I could hear their wings beating as they swooped by me and into another tree landing in unison in what was nearly darkness.  Immediately they began chirping and singing again.

The birds sang all night.  They sounded very familiar; like the Mocking Birds of home.   This morning I was watching them through the window.  I googled Texas Mocking Bird and found my guess to be correct.  At home I have only seen one and maybe two Mocking Birds at a time.  Here instead of hearing a solo I heard a choir singing  last night.  First the room would light up, then a clap of thunder, then song.  What a glorious night,  My bed wasn't too comfy but I caught myself smiling all through the night.