Moonlight

The moon is a wonderful, mysterious visitor these evenings, and I had a couple of ideas that I wanted to try.
Since there are telephone poles in the viewing space, I brought one in as a counterpoint to the moon and as some starkness in the moonglow.
The prayer flags hang from our roof over the deck and a little bit of work in Lightroom brought out the colors as I saw them in the moonlight.

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Two views

One of the most beneficial parts of the garden are some of the insects - specifically the praying mantis. We found a gaggle/herd - whatever the egg container is called - and placed it in the garden.  The little tiny ones are very cute, but the larger ones are beautiful.  Here's a couple of different views of these guys, they liven up the foliage for us.

A walk in the drylands

Murphy J and I took a long walk yesterday out by Farmington Bay Refuge. In many areas, the ground is dry, so we were able to walk quite a ways without 'mudding up'. The patterns on the ground are fascinating and worth a study in themselves.  We also found three eggshells - from birds that had their nest on the ground and the eggs had hatched.

A red-tailed hawk checked us out on the way home to see if we were edible - Murphy spent a bit of time in the pond cooling off after the walk. Here's a couple of different items from the walk.

Home

As much fun as it is to travel (usually), it is very nice to be home. The last two days have been pretty slow around here, as we found ourselves still in ocean mode. The weather has been blue-sky, no clouds, and in the mid-80's, with cool morning breezes. We'd love about two months of this, interspersed with ocasional rain.
Diana does a wonderful job of setting up the front of the house so it is very beautiful. Here's what it looked like.

A few more from the beach

I've been going through my trip photos today, deleting and looking for those that I like.  Here's three that I enjoyed.

I've attempted a lot of shots with these 'hairy' trees to capture what I saw - most of them have been unsuccessful.  But perseverance will overcome!

1833

1833 miles round trip - way too many miles. We loved having Murphy with us, but the amount of driving was really not worth it.
Very nice to be home, tomatoes are ripe, blackberries are luscious, Fuzzy was very glad to see us and the temperature has dropped!  A couple of shots on the way home - the biker had his dog well trained.