We did get a little rain this evening (it’s 9:39PM now), but there was a small rainbow this afternoon when the sun shone through the cloud cover.
we’re having a gentle winter so far in January. Maybe a couple nights when the temperature got close to freezing, but no problems with anything that may be affected by the cold.
Image above: Rainbow to the east of us — Click on the image to enlarge.
Of course, the Moon has nothing to do with the title, but we are getting queued up for the first full moon of 2025 in Arizona on June 13, 2025. I took the image above this evening with my Canon SL1 set to shutter priority 1/1000 sec. and F5.6. The focal length was about 250 mm through a Canon EF-S55-250mm zoom lens.
Anyhow, we’re late in wishing everybody a happy 2025, but we can do it now, so there it is.
Our plans for the new year aren’t very resolute, but they will probably include a longer voyage with the motorhome to the lands of our ancestors with some interesting attractions along the route(s). We may also go all the way to the east coast which will be a first for us in the big rig.
There will be no eclipses this time around, but we will be on the lookout for interesting photo ops and we plan to blog about it when we’re underway.
Cheers in 2025 and God Bless!
26 years ago today, God Almighty put us together forever in marriage. Neither of us have ever regretted joining our hearts in Christian love together. We’re looking forward to celebrating our 27th and on and on.
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Having competed yet another orbit around the sun, the total of my years is equivalent to the title and graphic shown. In spite of that rather large-ish sounding number, I am still in very good health with only minor symptoms of arthritis and a slightly under-performing kidney. I still see a dermatologist who eliminates some skin carcinoma from time to time, thus reminding me of my younger days of over exposure to the sun’s UV radiation.
Here’s a brief summary of life to this point:
I may have left out a few details. There are a couple of blog posts in the works that detail my Navy service – coming one of these days.
We arrived at our campground today without incident. We drove straight through the planned route and stopped only once in Alamogordo to take on fuel.
We were pleasantly surprised that our campground RV park is elevated above the southwest end of the city of Las Cruces – actually a pretty big town in this region of New Mexico. In the image above, you can see our rig parked with the mountain ranges in the distance and the urban sprawl below.
Later this evening, Verna and I took a walk down to the front of the park where there is an overlook of the area. I used my S23 Galaxy phone to photograph the city lights:
In the above image, you can dimly see the mountain range beyond the city we crossed coming here today. We also crossed the Rio Grande River, which flows through the area on its way to the Big Bend and thence to the Gulf of Mexico, where we were just a few days ago.
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Image: Llano River next to the RV Park – Click to enlarge.
We’ve actually been here at the Llano River RV Park since yesterday. We decided to have a more relaxing weekend on the road.
We had some good meals while camping here; we had grilled pork tenderloin on Saturday and grilled Filet Mignon steaks today. Not too bad at all!
Next, we will be headed to Fort Stockton, TX, where we will be doing some provisioning from the local supercenter. We also will be stopping here in Junction to take on Diesel for the RV.
We’re looking to be home by the end of this new week.
