Road Trip Shots

Caught a few shots during last week's drive from California to Utah. Southern Utah Virgin River Gorge - always amazing

Getting Back into the Swing of Things...Life in Our New Home

I've been a terrible blogger these past few months. Life has just been too busy and has gotten in the way. Very little time and energy for picture taking and none for writing. Between all that was...

First snake of the season

Spring is here and summer is coming. Paul sighted the first snake of the season the other day. A beautiful Rosy Boa. These snakes are pretty docile and non-venemous. You don't see them often, but...

Some Like it Hot

Today in Palm Springs. She's only there for about two more months, so see her while you can. She is beautiful against the desert mountain back drop.

Boobs!

I don't usually blog about this kind of thing, but this just bothered me. I was in my local, small town grocery store a few hours ago. Waiting in the check out line I looked to the left and saw...

Desert Light

The light was amazing this evening before sunset up at the Atomic Ranch. Birthday party for the property owner. All of his friends and their dogs in from LA. Spirits, food, good people. We watched...

Boulder Gardens (Garth's place), Pipes Canyon, CA

Some of you may know Garth, or have heard of him. He is pretty famous in these parts. In many ways he is responsible for my husband being out here in the desert. Garth has been in the area for a...

Fireplace Rock Wall + Recycled Old Wood

One of my favorite things in the house we are building is the fireplace in the great room, which will sit into a rock wall. The fireplace will have a wrap around hearth using large rocks. This will...

December 2012

December sunrise Walking Roadrunner Rut Road Backyard cottontails Bunny shadows December 21 - ring around the moon - the largest I've ever seen

Merry Christmas 2012

Magic on the Byway

I know a magic place where blue jays will practically sit on you looking for food and will eat from your hands. We know of two of them now. They live in a beautiful wooded path near our home. They...

Today's Hike

Favorite scenes from the Byway today.

Art Basel Miami 2012

Well Art Basel Miami is over for this year, and we missed it, breaking a multiple year in a row attendance record for my husband, and two years for me. We decided long ago we wouldn't attend this...

Winter

Finally it is starting to feel like Winter here in the desert. The temperatures are dropping, both in the day and night time. Today it rained most of the day. A bone chilling rain. We are staying...

The Moon Last Night...

The moon last night was so bright. Moving in and out of the clouds. Creeping, peeking, beaming, pouring light upward to the sky and downward to the ocean and the shore. While the stars, and I,...

Night Time Neighbors

Meet our neighbors out here in the desert :) Coyote! Bunny! Kitty!

KITTY!!!

Kitty!!!! We have a bobcat in our yard! We thought one was around the area but we finally have evidence. Paul bought the most awesome thing - one of these motion sensor video cameras. Hunters use...

Thanksgiving Photos

Just some Scenic Byway photos from Thanksgiving week in Utah and the long drive home to the California desert.

Passing of Time

Time is such a weird concept, isn't it? I am referring to how sometimes it can move so fast and at other times so slow. Everyone always talks about how as we get older time moves faster. It is a...

Madam President Liberia

Yesterday evening I arrived in Monrovia, Liberia. Guess who was on the plane on the Brussels to Monrovia leg? The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who happens to be the first elected...

Desert - Fall - Sky - Small Town Life

Fall is here in the desert. The temperatures are wonderful in the day and the sun doesn't feel as hot. The nights have a chill and its time to break out the wood stoves in the evenings. The...

Look Out for those Sociopaths

Moving a little away from the travel theme of this blog, here's another Byway Contemplation and Byway Memories post inspired by something I saw on Facebook today. Today on Facebook someone I know...

What Happened Last Night

This is not a political blog, but hey, yesterday we had the election. Its what's happening on the Byway. I wasn't planning on writing anything about it, but when I checked my email this morning I...

The Friendly Scrub Jay

Out here the blue jays are called Western Scrub Jays. Yesterday in Big Morongo Canyon Preserve in Morongo Valley we were hiking on the Desert Willow Trail and while stopping to look at something we...

Fall in the Desert

One of the things I miss from life back east is Fall. The kind of Fall you get in Pennsylvania, Maryland, DC, and Virginia - the areas where I have lived most of my life. I miss the changing colors...

Backyard Bunny

One of our little back-yard bunnies.

Full Moon Rising

Full moon rise over Black Lava Butte, this week. I wish I had a better camera to capture this. Out here the moon rise is pretty amazing.

Home

Viewed from the top of Black Lava Butte.

Sunset Views

Sunset, as viewed from our great room inside the house we are building

Sky Fire

Tonight's sunset...the sky was on fire.