Decorated

I ran across about a dozen of these bird ornaments in the trees lining a trail on the way home from running an errand this morning.  How jolly!

Afton Canyon

We found a scenic camping spot off of I15 last night, and it proved to give us a nice place to hike.  And we got to see one of the rare part of the Mojave river that actually have surface water.

Covington Flats

We found the biggest Joshua Trees I’ve ever seen in an obscure corner of the park yesterday.

Excuse

I used this trip as an excuse to camp at the base of the Superstitions — my favorite mountain range in AZ.

City of Rocks

We found a cool campground to stay at last night, on our slow path to visit Kean. It had owls right in the campsite!

Frozen bubbles!

 The fish below the ice are still moving, albeit slowly.

I like the air compressor

The air compressor makes stapling projects easy.  And the hose is long enough to reach from the garage into the project room :)

Here is the re-covered card table in the sun room, now that I’ve finished it.  Not bad for a $3 piece of scrap material!

Sprinkle snow

 I left a shirt outside to air, and now it is a sprinkle snow substrate.

Also, I continue to be amazed at how good the camera on my phone is.

More snow

We got another dusting last night, so we went for a little walk before breakfast to look at the fresh white world of wonder!

I wonder... if we could put a heater in the greenhouse?

I wonder... if we should call it the white house, in the wintertime?

Just enough snow to make the grass look dramatic, without hiding it completely.

Holiday tree?

We noted this morning that a coating of snow makes the tumbleweeds look festive.

Petroglyphs

One thing that is fun around here is that it is easy to find hikes with petroglyphs.  And views.

Real snow

 First snow to stick on the ground - while earlier we got flakes falling out of the sky, this time it was cold enough to drop about 2 in of nice, light powder.

It was mostly gone by the afternoon, but we went for a walk in the morning to enjoy the hushed white world.