Verna and I went to the 36th Annual Wickenburg Bluegrass Festival today. We didn’t stay long, but we enjoyed the music and shopping at the concessions set up on the rodeo grounds.
I took several images of the performance area with the crowd enjoying the music as the performers played. I stitched the images together to make this panoramic view of the event. Click on the image to view the full sized panorama.
Despite cooler temperatures and some of our summer birds migrating south, our little hummers are still coming around to sample from Verna’s feeders by the back patio. This little guy paused to sip several times before flitting away. I was out the back patio door taking pictures of other birds at the other feeders out back when the hummer showed up. Click on the image to enlarge.
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’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.
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.
This is a rare photo of the BNSF Railroad Bridge spanning the Hassayampa River seven miles south of Wickenburg where there is water flowing above ground in the riverbed and going under the stately bridge. Verna took this photo from US 60 on Wednesday while we were on our way to do some shopping in the northwest metro valley.
We have had a considerable amount of rainfall over the last week, with thundershowers in the mountains and below producing enough precipitation to flow down from the headwaters of the river in the mountains northeast of town. Today, the showers have subsided and the forecast is for partly cloudy and mostly sunny weather until the next unseasonable thunderstorms hit, maybe as a consequence of hurricane Patricia, now situated in the eastern Pacific off the coast of Mexico.
Meanwhile, it looks like good weather to prevail for tomorrow and the weekend.
