We finally got out to play some golf today. What a crappy day to play. :) Not really. It was 75 degrees and sunny here today. Light and variable breeze. It got kinda hot when the breeze died. Chuckle. Poor me. We played one of the city courses -- Dell Urich. The course was in about the shape you would expect for winter. The fairways, tees, and greens were very green. The roughs were brown and crispy. I understand that they've only had 1/1000th of an inch of rain so far this year. So the condition wasn't surprising. The views were, however. This course is basically in the middle of town. But this is the view down one of the holes. Beautiful!
Our games were about what one would expect given that neither of us have played golf since last September/October. We were up, down, left, right. Let's just say that we got our money's worth by seeing the WHOLE course! :) I caught Max in one of his warmup swings.
And even tho' it was in the mid-town area, there were quite a few wildlife. We saw lots of grey ground squirrels. Usually they skipped to their burrows when we approached. But not this guy!
We found him on one tee box. I happened to be eating a banana at that time, so I threw him a couple of small pieces to keep him busy while I went to get my phone for a pic. Max says he gobbled up the first piece. And I caught this pic as he was escaping with the second piece. What a cutie!
Another benefit of picking this course? We had our own personal air show. The local Air Force Base is huge and seems to house a number of different types of aircraft. The course happens to be located in the flight path for landing approach, fly-bys, or touch and go. We saw F16s, C130s, Blackhawk helicopters, A10 Warthogs, and what appeared to be the F35 fighters. They were flying singly and in formation. It was amazing. And since I'm surch an airplane geek, I spent a LOT of time staring at the sky. I tried to take a few pics, but couldn't ever get them in the frame. Drat!
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