Hi Keith
I use a Nikon point and shoot camera.
Nikon has an app called snapbridge which is able to transfer from the camera which needs to be close to your tablet and you can then upload to emails or cb journals.
Maybe your brand of camera has a similar app?

Yep. We had a nice long conversation about this trip back in December.

I'm glad you're enjoying it! Hoping that continues...

Is is the journey not the destination!

Keith, I love your thoughts! It is going to be amazing and the longer you travel the closer you'll get to freeing your mind!

Thanks! We'll see how it works out, soon enough.

Looks amazing! Wish you safe and fun travels!

I'm not worried; I figure the bud will just close back up when the cold returns. (It has: where yesterday's high was probably 70, today we'll barely get to 36.)

And this was the only bud I saw that had opened that far; a few others were showing just a hint of green at their tips but I'm sure they too will draw their wrappers closer to them against the chill.

I saw the silk, which was partly what led me to deduce they were insect homes and not part of the plant. That, and not all of the trees had them. The first one I saw seemed to have been the only one on the tree but when I looked more carefully at neighboring trees they had many- dozens, in some cases- which was another indicator that they were not part of the trees themselves.

Thanks Bill, that's interesting.

Long gone. Good observation.

Notice the branch is slightly swollen where it is attached because the silk does not stretch, and eventually may kill the end of the branch if the silk does not deteriorate first.

Close! Bagworm caterpillars make protective/camouflaged bags that continue to be expanded as they grow and wander around the branches of their bush. Males do eventually pupate inside the bag and become moths that fly out in search of females. Females never leave, pupating and attracting a male to mate. They produce eggs, die and the hatchlings eat their way out to start all over. They can kill bushes. Our church lost a few a couple years back. I occasionally use them for bluegill bait, but they are a pain to get out of the bag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_bagworm

Roses are tough. It will be fine.

Thanks!

Reading journals about the Cowboy Trail brings me to realize it's considerably north and east of where I'm currently planning to transit the Sand Hills. But that could change so it's good to have some backup knowledge in my hip pocket, "just in case".

Here are a couple of videos from a cross country tour. They were made in the sand hills and on the Cowboy Trail in Nebraska.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG_SPckwSzU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq0VCy3OCd4