Just another beautiful evening in paradise. Click on the image to enlarge.
Retirement
Lucky Strike
When McDonalds remodeled their restaurant near the Hassayampa River, they installed a new bronze artwork entitled “Lucky Strike” to depict the old mining days and our town’s heritage. I snapped this photo today on our way to the Wickenburg Sportsmen’s Club for some target practice. Click on the image to enlarge.
Another Beautiful Desert Day
Not much to say than it has been another beautiful day on the desert. Hi temp about 99 and lows expected to be about 68. I am so glad we moved here. Both of us are. Click on the image to enlarge.
Peak Near Castle Hot Springs
After shopping in Surprise today, we took a drive up toward Castle Hot Springs. The area up there is a beautiful Sonoran Desert saguaro forest with teddy bear cholla, compass cactus and prickly pear among the usual creosote and mesquite.
This was our first trip up castle Hot Springs Road. The first mile or so of the road north of SR 74 is paved, but then it becomes an unimproved, but properly graded road. As we got near to the top of the road, I was able to get a closer photo of this peak. The peak is visible from US 60 and we have posted pictures of it before, but this image frames the peak as seen from the saguaro forest below. Click on the image to enlarge.
Yard Deco
We had a semi-surprise visit from my son and his girl friend today. I gave them a tour of the house and grounds since this was their first visit. My son remarked about the rock garden where I stacked up several flat rocks beside the RV drive. I took this photo of my stack and some of the other yard decorations. Click on the image to enlarge.
More Erosion Control Project
I collected some more rocks from around the lot and placed them along the road to shore up the rocks I placed there on Wednesday. Damsel came out to help also. She took this picture of me working on the project when she brought the dogs out for their run.
I took the panoramic image seen above after the day’s work was complete. I still want to move more of the one-inch red gravel to cover some of the bare spots. Click on the image to enlarge.
Erosion Control Project
About three weeks ago, I posted an item about some erosion along the front of our property. Today, since the temperatures were in the comfortable range of mid-eighties, I started transporting boulders from the back property and placed them along the edge of the path that the runoff takes when we get our summer gully-washers.
I still have a way to go before I will be done. I have some more one-inch red gravel to place on the bare strip on the right end of the area. I also will be transporting more medium-sized boulders to place in front of the ones I brought down today. I also intend to extend the rock wash at the right end a couple of feet to the confluence with the runoff coming down the road.
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