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Rucker Bat Cave Entrance

Rucker Bat Cave Entrance

After a hard rain. The color in this scan came out so weird it looks hand-tinted, but it's just the...

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Uploaded on Apr 18, 2009

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Another view of the ladder, and shrubbery in the bottom of the entrance.

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Uploaded on Apr 18, 2009

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Rucker Bat Cave Entrance

Rucker Bat Cave Roost

The cave is entered via a long extension ladder, while someone above holds a belay line. You can...

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Uploaded on Apr 18, 2009

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Jim Kennedy climbing into the bat roost to get a rough census.

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Rucker Bat Cave

Rucker in the Rain

Looking up the breakdown slope from near the back of th main room, almost directly under the bat...

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Uploaded on Apr 18, 2009

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During a fierce but breif thunderstorm, a hole in the celing sprang a quite lovely waterfall. There...

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Uploaded on Apr 18, 2009

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Rucker Sunset

Small Barrel Cactus

Looking west from the cave entrance. It got dark as we packed up to head back to the ranch house,...

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Uploaded on Apr 18, 2009

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Don't know the name of the variety -- each flower only lasted about 3 days.

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Uploaded on Apr 18, 2009

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Aloe Flower

Sabinal School Panorama 1922

We put a cactus garden 2 years ago in out at the corner where the grass got too hot to survive. The...

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Uploaded on Apr 18, 2009

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Sabinal high School. Not sure if it's the graduating class, or the entire high school. My wife's...

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Uploaded on Apr 17, 2009  |  Map

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Spikey Ones That Hurt

Rose After Rain

Unable to conjure the name of this plant momentarily, I asked my daughter "What're these things...

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Uploaded on Mar 27, 2009

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Or during. It rained on and off as we wandered the Zilker Botanical Gardens.

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Uploaded on Mar 27, 2009

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Ney Cave Soda Straw

Candela Train Station

First and probably only successful cave shot I got with my old Pentax Macro. I actually took some...

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Uploaded on Mar 25, 2009

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On the highway 1 near Candela Mexico, north of Bustamante.

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Uploaded on Mar 25, 2009  |  Map

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Gruta de Carrizal

Schroedinger's Deep Fried Mushroom

long river cave near Butamante, Mexico. Sure wish I had focused the camera.

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Uploaded on Mar 25, 2009

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fontophilic ordered fried mushrooms. The mushroom somehow escaped it's crunchy tomb -- or was it...

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Uploaded on Mar 21, 2009

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Metafilter Meetup SXSW 09

Metafilter Meetup SXSW 09

Unknown Atendees. Feel free to identify yourselves, and I'll add your names to the tags...

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Uploaded on Mar 21, 2009

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dw, Jessamyn, epersonae and *s.

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Uploaded on Mar 21, 2009

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