Hi ALL, Ok Hal, Heres my string of pics I took at the Baker Ranch Devils River Digsite on Saturday, May 4th. Enjoy...

First off, the first punch hole into Midden #3 before we had got started that morning...


Heres my friend, Damon, waiting at our screen that am before the dig...


Heres Carla & Isabelle, that same morning.....


Heres our Iconic man, "Shallow Hal", with his custom rock rake & KS Friday Blade Brad in the background, that am.....


Left to Right, taken by SH, are Carla, Brad, John (Me), Damon & Isabelle..


Heres Brad & his awesome 4 9/16" long high grade Friday Blade found right after lunch....


At the end of the day, Nacho, enjoying a brewsky & Carla......


Heres Hal, looking over the days finds....


The gang looking over the days finds....



At the days end, the results, Heres Joels finds......


Brads Finds.....


My Finds........


Frank, Kelli & Jacobs Finds......


More Finds, Don't remember who found these though...





AND, on Sunday, May 5th, a few photos, Sunday was very slow, yet a few points were found. I talked that evening with fellow artifact man Jon, from near Houston, who had a awesome collection of Devils River artifacts from this site. Heres Jon holding a nice Val Verde he had found at a earlier dig from this site.....


And, Jons current collection of Devils River artifacts, all from this digsite from many previous & current digs....



AND, for those who may like snakes as much as I do, on Sunday evening we left the digsite, just after sunset, headed South to Comstock, then West on US 90 towards Sanderson, we decided to check out some rocks we knew of near Langtry & we found this 27" +- beautifull Gray-Banded Kingsnake out crawling around, about 11:15pm that night...... a stunning gem of the trans-pecos desert & a snake that I have searched for & been finding most years since 1982......

You adventure nut !
Walking around in the desert at midnight SNAKEHUNTING after a very long day of screen table work...

That is a very beautiful ( G10 ? )critter. I'd rather see him than an 8' rattler ! Would he have thought your camera flash was a bolt ?

Always good to see different camera angles of a good day. Your opening pic of the site is better than any I got...just think, many years ago some ancient people were waking up to the same beautiful sunny day right there.

Good show

PS:
I see on the recent wx reports that enough snow has melted in Kansas that someone actually saw a piece of dirt

Hal, Thanks for the comments, since we had to get back to Sanderson that night anyway, I couldnt resist shining a light around on the way back to see the prettiest snake of Texas out moving around. Get this, this kingsnake was NOT even discovered until 1901 from TX, then it was first found in the Davis Mountains. Around 1949, 2 Herpetologists (people who study reptiles like snakes) were driving on US 90, about 8.8 miles West of Dryden & found a unusual patterned kingsnake crossing the road there. It was not patterned the same as the original 1901 Davis Gray-banded was & so at first they didnt even know forsure what it was. Turns out it was ALSO a Gray-banded kingsnake, although it had wide orange bands like the snake we found this trip. The wide orange banded gray-bands are called "blairs" phase by us snake people, the variety found in the Davis mountains & Big Bend area tend to have much reduced orange-red bands or no orange at all & are known as "alterna" phase variants of the gray-banded kingsnake. These kingsnakes were actually found to be not really rare at all, but extremely secretive, living deep within limestone fissures & cracks below the ground surface & coming out after dark, in search of food like lizards & mice. Unless a person looks at night for them, you would almost never ever see one in the wild.

Yes Hal, the ground is springing to life here, we have grass, weeds & snakes out now, Yipee! LOL I have even found 3 points already, need to get them posted soon. Later, John

Great pics and update. Hal, what kind of new tool you call that you are using??

Trav !! , , , , , is that really YOU

I figured those four inch hailstones yesterday would have gone right through your roof and pulverised your PC and the occupants.. !

Tool is the " JUNO "....created a couple of months ago specifically to deal with the millions of fire rocks at Juno 1 - 2 & 3