First Day of Winter

Feather in fresh snow

Celebrate Solstice

 More Wide Open Spaces

Road through Comb Ridge

Toy Truck?

Three kings of the hill.
The little boys are difficult to spot.

Moki Dugway
From canyon floor to mountain top.
Up, up and up we went.
This is about half way.

Utah or Mars ?

We recently made a trip to south eastern Utah for 

some hiking, some quiet in the vast open

spaces and some

stargazing.  

At times,  we thought we might be on Mars.

Golden Cottonwood Leaves

Cottonwood Bark

Three Boys

In the end it is all about doggies

Dodging Tornados

Recently, my daughter and I made a 2,000+ mile road trip

from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Asheville, North Carolina to

visit an auntie who will soon be 85.

The direct, straight line route is I-40 door to door.

Part of I-40, especially through Oklahoma, is

known as "Tornado Alley".

When we left we knew there would be bad weather

following us - we did not know how bad it 

would be.

As we approached Oklahoma City we saw the biggest cloud

either of us had ever seen on the horizon.

Very Scary!

Here it is below.

 View of the cloud from under it and up through the sunroof of the car

The blobs of cloud hung down like elongated cotton balls.

Needing fuel east of Oklahoma City we pulled into a Love's Gas station in Shawnee, Ok.

After getting gas we noticed a field of wild flowers so stopped to

take some photos and to stretch our legs.

As we were photographing we noticed some folks around the

gas pumps looking skyward and saying things like:

"which direction is it coming from"?

We decided that we had better get going because a storm was near.

Flower field along I-40  Shawnee, Oklahoma.

To make this long story longer -  when we arrived at our motel in Van Buren, 
Arkansas that evening we found that the place where we had gotten gas 

had been severely hit by a tornado and I-40 was closed because of flying cars and overturned Big Rig trucks!

The following day a larger tornado destroyed Moore, Ok 

Our guardian angel had been with us.

Ancient History

We have always been dog people

Robbie was our second one

after Tom & I met.

We were on a camping trip in the 70's and this little 12 week 

old guy went with us.

Knitting

My friend Robyn made

me a gift of her

lovely hand spun yarn.

A beautiful, long and soft

scarf it will be.

Gone To The Dogs

My Life and my chair

are not my own any more.

Take note of my knitting bag

(neglected)

on the back of the chair.

Perhaps the pups

will take up knitting.

Wordless Wednesday

Practicing . . . . .

. . . . . . for St. Patrick's Day

Irish Soda Buns.

Delicious!

Wednesday Nap

Snoozing in sun spots

Monday Morning Snow

Can You Smell It?

Thanks so much

to 

Down By The Sea.

This is the first attempt.

Totally delicious

and 

addicting!!! 

Wordless Wednesday

Where is that danged snowball??