This is a photo I took of some daisies eight years ago yesterday. The photo was archived on the terabyte drive that we use for backup. I found it by accident when looking for Veteran’s Day photos. I liked the fall colors and always love flowers in general. Click on the image to enlarge.
We don’t normally go out on the weekends, but today we had occasion to drive to the post office and then to deposit a check that came in the mail at the bank. We also did some shopping while we were in that end of town (Old Wickenburg).
As we drove through the old section, we noticed a lot of two-wheelers parked at the cafes downtown. We hear the bikes on the weekends from home, but rarely get to see some of the nice motorcycles in person. This bunch of bikers were enjoying some of the great Mexican food available at the only Mexican restaurant in old downtown. Click on the image to enlarge.
Signs of Second Spring have persisted for several weeks. Today, there were dozens of butterflies browsing the flowers on the sage, red birds and Rosemary. The nice thing about using Rosemary for ground cover along the RV drive, is that butterflies of all sizes, colors and descriptions are attracted to the tiny blue flowers.
I captured this photo of a yellow and gold butterfly lighting on a Rosemary just under the top of the little hill out back. Click on the image to enlarge.
On our way into Southern Cal today, we passed this RV that was towing one of those funny (and ugly) little economy cars. I guess the mindset being that if we burn x gallons per mile getting where we go, we can make up for it by cramming ourselves into our towed ride which gets beaucoup miles per gallon and tour the local area after parking the big dude in the RV park. I think that unless they drive hundreds and hundreds of miles locally, they may not completely offset each other’s gas consumption.
Now, don’t get me wrong – we all know the energy “crisis” is a complete fraud and I have no problem with consumers consuming whatever resources thy can afford. We do the same when we travel. It just seems to me that if you’re going to consume “precious” resources, that you should be towing a Hummer and not that pathetic little Nissan POS. Just sayin’.
We had a fairly long drive today, since we usually try to keep the travel time to under four hours. Today, we had an almost five-hour drive from Bishop, CA, to Kingman, AZ. Yay! Back in free America.
During the last few miles of the trip, we saw several isolated rain showers off to the right or left of our route. This one, was off to the south of I-40 as we passed through the outskirts of the Kingman area.
We looked on the NWS sites and think that we won’t encounter much more than a few showers on our way back home tomorrow. The route is good highway (I-40 and US 93) back home and mostly above the flood potential. We will see . . .
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We left Reno, NV, this morning only to return to California on US 395. Shortly after encountering beautiful Lake Topaz in Nevada, we drove through the agricultural check point that California maintains. The uniformed attendant asked where we were traveling from and just waved us through. (If it only were to check for legitimate US citizenship, it would be a great improvement, but that’s off-topic.)
The scenery along 395 along the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains through the Owens Valley is breathtaking. If you don’t happen to like the scenery, wait five minutes as you travel and it will change. Just moments before I photographed this rock outcropping on a mountain peak, we were in a forest of redwood trees and the road ran alongside a creek with considerable water flowing in it, whitewater in some places. Just after I took the photo, the road came to an overlook with majestic Mono Lake in the distance.
We left Santa Rosa this morning on our way to Reno. Instead of taking Interstate 80, we opted to go the scenic route up US 50 through the American River Canyon, through Lake Tahoe, Carson City and on to Reno.
I took a lot of pictures along the route all the way from wine country to the high desert of Nevada. I picked this one of the American River, North Fork to post this evening as we relax in our hotel. Tomorrow will present a lot of photo ops as we travel back into eastern California along US 395 to Bishop. Watch for more photos tomorrow. Click on the image to enlarge.