Slow Day in the Office

With Cyndee and I working the visitor center on the weekend (Thu, Fri, Sat) we usually see the peak of visitor ship to the park each week.  On non-holidays we'll have a pretty steady stream of people all day long with 40-50 by noon and 90-120 by 4pm closing time.  February is the lull in the otherwise peak season.  The kids are in school and people taking vacations in this month are more likely to be visiting ski slopes than the desert.  We have days that never break 50 and our clientele of late are distinctly more,, uhmm,,, seasoned and tend to shuffle rather than walk.  But that will change soon enough.  March is Spring Break and people will arrive from all points en masse.  We'll have people lined up ten deep at the information desk all day long.

But for now, with a little time on our hands in the visitor center I had the chance to photograph what passes for a day at the office.

Cyndee has spotted a newly arriving bird to the Chisos Mountains

Time to tap the "reference library" and see if the bird can be identified.

Cyndee doing her research.  Someone is bound to ask what that bird is and they expect us to know.

I hope to work in a way to step back and take a wide shot of the visitor center full of people with Cyndee behind the desk.  If it happens it will be a post in March.