Added attraction for AGM at Estes Park!

[Mary]

Dan "Booner" Thompson sent this in ---

He said most of it was filmed just outside of where the games are held.......SO GET READY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=794wEIbHlDc

I'll try to embed the video in the main site in the next few days-- I'm up to my eyeballs at the moment...........

[Barbara]

Thanks Booner!  I miss the elk.  We had a herd of over 250 that wintered across the highway from our house in Colorado.  I loved going high up the mountains and listening to the elks bugling during mating season in the Fall and listening to the antlers clacking. 

Cousin Barbara

[Donna]

and I thought it was so exciting that we had a baby skunk in my neighborhood 

Thanks for posting the Elks, Booner!

Donna

[Mary]

Well, Donna..........there are neighborhoods and then there are NEIGHBORHOODS! In CA, a baby skunk is probably "Wild America!"  When Tom went to the games in Estes Park a couple of years ago, he stayed in a motel right downtown and they had elk roaming all around the back of the motel and one kept following Booner when they'd leave their rooms.

My neighborhood is somewhere in between yours and Booners! Deer, squirrels,coyotes, occasional boar, turkeys AND skunks  Guess we're "moderately wild America with a twist of civilization?" 

Sure wish you and your sister could come and join us in Estes, Donna! It should be a grand time!

[Donna]

Hey Mary,
My heart will be with y'all in Estes Park and had I been there, at the time, I would
have been following Booner around too.   

Happy Tartan Day!
Donna

[Parker Thomson]

Those cool close-up photos you see in Nat Geo- they were shot with expensive telephoto lens cameras for a reason.  Human Safety.  Really, you will just forget about that stupid cell phone pic in a month anyway.