We’re home again after our wonderful spring vacation & NRA 2A Blogbash trip. No time left in the day to write anything extensive, so enjoy these beautiful beaver tail cactus flowers we saw today at Joshua Tree National Park.
Vacation
Arizona and California RR
I like trains.
My Grand Daddy was a railroad engineer and my Dad worked on the rail powerhouses when he was young. I get a gleam in my eye and the wanderlust associated with rail travel every time I see a train headed one way or the other. Today, that sense of wanderlust got renewed when we passed this convoy of tanker cars pulled by two Arizona and California locomotives headed west on US highway 60 near Salome, Arizona.
Verna took this pix (and about 450 others today) as we passed the train. Click image to enlarge.
Pride of Barbados
We’re now in Phoenix, Arizona. We are staying at an RV park on the outskirts of town. It’s very warm outside, but we’re nice and cool in the air conditioned camper.
When we took a walk around to take Bear to the dog run, I took this picture of one of my favorite flowering shrubs, the “Pride of Barbados,” also called “red bird of paradise.” I would have these in our yard at home, but it gets too cool for this desert tropical variety. Click the image to enlarge.
Camping on the Colorado
Heading to Phoenix tonight. We’re camping along the Colorado River in Blythe, CA. Here’s a panoramic image taken from our campsite after we got set up. Click image to enlarge.
Gratuitous Wanderlust
We saw a commercial promoting tourism in Utah on the TV this evening. Of course, that induced a serious case of wanderlust in both of us. I dug out this photo of an arch in southern Utah near Moab. We can’t wait to get back to this ‘red dirt’ part of the world. Click image to enlarge.
