Yesterday, we spotted a huge jackrabbit on the road near the new house. I swear as big as a medium-sized dog. We didn’t see him today, but we did spot this smaller one.
We like our new neighbors – peoples and critters alike. Click on the image to to see the big picture.
We had to run a couple of errands this morning, so we stopped at our new house while we were out. I climbed the little hill behind the house to have a look around. While I was up there, I took a series of images of the neighborhood, panoramic style to stitch into the panoramic image below. The new house is just to the right of center. Click on the image to view the full-sized panorama.
I hoped that we would be able to post photos of my beautiful outdoor lighting fixtures before Christmas. Thanks to the contractor building our new house, I got this photo of one of them installed this morning.
We waited until the fixtures arrived at our California house before heading to Arizona to deliver them and get them installed. They arrived on Tuesday 12/21, we delivered them to the new house (after a terrible rainy five-hour drive) yesterday, 12/22. When we drove over to the house this morning, one of the sconces was already installed.
I think it looks beautiful with the turquoise and copper highlights over the terra cotta color of the house. I hope to get a shot at night with light visible through the amber mica translucent filter. Click on the image to enlarge.
The Democrats (and quite a few Republicans) don’t get it. They’re taking OUR money, not the other way around. As Kini points out, extending the Bush Tax Reduction for ONLY two years isn’t exactly a boon to the economy and business.
At last the days will be starting to grow longer rather than shorter. This is a still screenshot from Archaeoastronamy.com who provides an interesting animated depiction of seasonal changes and cross-quarter celestial events.
Earth’s annual orbit is The Master Clock because the common yardstick of our lives is the year. Years are divided by the seasons just as calendars are segmented by months. Mechanical and digital timepieces measure intervals that split into hours, minutes and seconds each spin of our planet on its axis. Yet, it is the earth’s regular, rhythmic loop around the sun that standardizes our timeframe of reference, regardless of geographic distances separating us from our acquaintances or generational distances separating us from our ancestors.
The semi-rural nature of our new house allows us to observe wild critters in or near our lot. I like the little quail, cottontails and squirrels that frequent the premises. So, to encourage them to come around. We place some “Critter Crunch” on the ground near our back patio.
I put some down the last couple of times we were in Arizona. It will be interesting to see who and what comes around now that the weather is a little cooler in December. I’ll try to get some pictures of our shy little critters when we’re there over the Christmas holiday.
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