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Sundown

Sundown

I love when the clouds turn those wonderful shades of yellow, pink, orange and red after the sun goes down in the west. I pointed my camera west several days ago to get this photo of the nice colors. Click on the image to enlarge.

These past few days have had very little in clouds overhead and the temperatures have been nice – in the 70’s during the day and over 50 at night. It has been what I call the “tweener” weather – in between fall and winter when you dress warmly in the mornings and have to shed layers by the afternoon for it being too warm. The same tweener thing goes for transitioning from winter to spring.

We’re having warm days this weekend, but by Thanksgiving next week, we will be having much cooler days with highs in the fifties. Time to get out the sweaters and hooded sweats.

Sugar Skull

Sugar Skull

We bought this nice Sugar Skull decoration in a post-Halloween bargain pile at one of the supermarkets here in town. Other than a Halloween decoration, this could be used to celebrate “Dias de Los Muertos” or Days of the Dead that starts on October 31st through November 3rd to coincide with Halloween and All Saints Day celebrations.

Baby G Grinning

Baby G Grinning

Baby G’s Mama sent this beautiful photo to me today. He is getting so big! From a little five pounder at birth to this three months and over ten pounds little grinning baby boy. I miss him! Glad to have the photos, however.

Bye Bye For Now Baby G

Bye Bye

Today, we drove home from a two-day visit with our new grandson, his mom and dad and the baby’s other set of grandparents. We have been trying to make regular visits to the Palm Desert area where his parents bring him to meet us at a point less than halfway between the baby’s house in Pasadena and ours in Wickenburg.

It was a nice visit. We pulled the trailer to a nearby RV resort on Wednesday, camped for the night and then brought a Mexican takeout luncheon to the in laws place. I held the baby as much as I could while we were there. I just love him!

In the image above, I am saying goodbye for now with another planned visit to take place in about six weeks. Click on the image to enlarge.

Second Spring

Devil’s Tongue Flower

The really hot days of summer are now over, it seems, with forecast highs ONLY in the 90’s. Some of the cacti around the yard are opening flowers like spring has sprung. This is typical of this time of year which the locals (and that includes us) refer to as “second spring.”

The photo above is the last flower of many that opened on our Devil’s Tongue Barrel cactus over the summer. We brought this cactus from the old place in California, put it in the ground here and it has been happy ever since, having grown to twice the height and a significantly larger diameter than when it arrived. Click on the image to enlarge.

Baby G, Pizza and Daddy

Everyone Loves Pizza

Our son sent this fabulous photo in an email to me today. Baby G looks like he wants to try the pizza, but, of course, he’s not quite ready for that. His daddy looks like he probably will enjoy the pie after he puts the little guy in his crib.