Dove Hunting Season is Here

Shortly after moving back to Texas in 2009, I headed out on a bike ride into the countryside on an early September morning.   One of the joys of living on the Blackland  Prairie is all the open roads and fields.    The scenery is fantastic.  What caught me off guard, however, were gunshots being fired from those fields!   My first thought was:  these folks don’t like guys riding around in tight shorts!   No worries though.   Upon my return home, I found out it was the start of dove hunting season, an event which only lasts the month of  September in these parts.   While I’m no hunter, it’s a part of the culture here I respect.    The hunters like the ones pictured in these photos taken Sunday afternoon for the Williamson County Sun were having a grand time participating in their sport.   C.J. Tannehill, the young lady pictured, shares her love of hunting with her dad, Mike Tannehill, who along with her dog, Leon, was along for the day’s adventure.   And Jesus Flores,  longtime hunter carrying on a tradition begun by his now 100-year-old father.