#acton ca

It’s 105 in the shade in the back yard, so goodness knows how hot it is on the west side of the house this afternoon. My smart mother suggested this easy fix!  I cut slits in an old busted up umbrella so the wind won’t catch it so easily and put it over the rose.

Temperatures are supposed to rise over 100 degrees every day for the next week.  Laying low on the edge of the desert.

Pink about 3/4 of the way to the finish.

Scene of the yellow.

Some images from the couple of days after the Run for the Color, when we returned to the park for our regularly scheduled morning walk/jog.

Does anyone else see a heart in that tire track in the middle of the color leftover from the starting line of the 5K?

This tree house has seen better days, but it must have been wonderful in its hey day. Hopefully the tree will leaf out in the spring. Kitty and I take a little time to drive the side roads in and around Acton during her visit. We’ve found some interesting things and views.  

We had a lovely fluffy snow fall for a couple of hours. It stuck around for a while, but was rained away by the afternoon.  I get excited like a little kid when it snows here at 3100 feet.

Tlaloc Dice “De Nada”

Tlaloc says, “You’re welcome.” Last year, in anticipation of El Nino, we had two terraces built into the slope that runs most of the length of our property. El Nino didn’t bring out his rain clouds to play. This summer we added a small statue of Tlaloc, the Aztec god of rain (and drought, and sprouting) that called to us on a visit to Olvera Street. We didn’t actually realize this until we saw a…

We drove about ten minutes  from our house up into the Sierra Pelona mountains (San Gabriels) this afternoon.  Lovely to see the snow from sun-warmed roads.  A nice amount of people were out having snow ball fights, taking pictures and even loading their truck beds with snow. :D Gorgeous blue skies scrubbed clean after last night’s rains and snow. Hope you spend this time of the year celebrating…

One of our neighbors was working with a new trio of horses.  Our western view is obscured by a near hill. This is across from where our bank of mailboxes for the neighborhood is. Looking the other way from next to the mailboxes. Looking east at sunset.