small beauties
… okay, this one’s sort of large, but also it’s really cool.
Couple days ago I took the boys off into the woods for the day, which was a Very Excellent Decision & which I need to do more often. I gathered SEVERAL ounces of piñon resin & a random bone, & when I came back to the pile later, a tree had added half a pinecone.
… or spikiness, as the case may be. But even the spiky can be beautiful. I knew this flower as Indian Paintbrush but it occurred to me that 1) probably the name is kind of racist & 2) probably the people who lived here first have another name for it so I went looking. The
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We brought home LOTS of treasure. LOOK at all this piñon resin. It’s more than five ounces, & that long piece in the back is an ounce & a half all on its own. I found a cool carved-stone pipe that I kinda love. The horse skull is what I went out to fetch —
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They don’t care, except that Loiosh is getting bored because I haven’t taken him ANYWHERE AT ALL MOM (except for an emergency trip to Albuquerque but more about that later). Mostly their lives are about the same, only with more opportunities to lay on Mom.
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(I did one loop around the house & let him out, he really did pretty well with it, but this is the funniest picture I have ever taken in my ENTIRE LIFE) After that, though, it was time to stick Loiosh in the basket instead & go check the mail, because 1) he’s bored, 2)
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(not ‘part the first’ but ‘my first visit’ because why WOULDN’T I stop at such an awesome spot twice?) What with one thing & another I had a choice the second day between reaching the Queen Creek Walmart at like 3pm OR finding a place to stop for the afternoon somewhere after Salt River Canyon,
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You see above a Good Path! It leads to Pintail Lake Wetlands near Show Low in Arizona, which was constructed to filter Show Low’s waste water & create habitat for waterfowl & all the many other critters that love wetlands. It was a lovely day, I had plenty of time, & the path was promised
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Near the end of the first day, having gotten a good feel for how Tyrava pulls, I decided that I would challenge myself & see how well I was REALLY doing with this towing-a-big-trailer thing. I decided to do this by taking AZ60 through Salt River Canyon. Down through Salt River Canyon. The one with
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Celebrating sixteen years of The Vagabond Tabby — & the sixteenth birthday of my VP of Marketing, the horriblest cat in the world, my dearest Loiosh.
(25% off everything in the shop — yes, it’s my biggest sale of the year! — running April 25 through May 1)