Show hours are noon to 9 p.m. today through Saturday, and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. The Fall Houston Camper and Recreational Vehicle Show is sponsored by the Houston Recreational Vehicle Dealers Association. The featured speaker will be Walter McLendon of the Piney Woods Fly Fishers Club in Lufkin. The program is free and open to the interested public. The soakings provided a break from a dry month and capped above-average annual precipitation levels for the region.
Prospects are outstanding on ranges even halfway groomed for birds.
On that note, prime grain and goatweed fields near Houston might be worth a late-week check. Waterfowl numbers almost certainly will swell behind the front. Big numbers of early-migrating ducks and the first scattering of white geese may show this week along the upper coast. Joe Doggett covers the outdoors for the Chronicle. His column appears on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.