Full Moon Rising
Full moon rise over Black Lava Butte, this week. I wish I had a better camera to capture this. Out here the moon rise is pretty amazing.
View ArticleFall in the Desert
One of the things I miss from life back east is Fall. The kind of Fall you get in Pennsylvania, Maryland, DC, and Virginia - the areas where I have lived most of my life. I miss the changing colors of...
View ArticleThe Friendly Scrub Jay
Out here the blue jays are called Western Scrub Jays. Yesterday in Big Morongo Canyon Preserve in Morongo Valley we were hiking on the Desert Willow Trail and while stopping to look at something we...
View ArticleWhat Happened Last Night
This is not a political blog, but hey, yesterday we had the election. Its what's happening on the Byway. I wasn't planning on writing anything about it, but when I checked my email this morning I had...
View ArticleLook Out for those Sociopaths
Moving a little away from the travel theme of this blog, here's another Byway Contemplation and Byway Memories post inspired by something I saw on Facebook today. Today on Facebook someone I know...
View ArticleDesert - Fall - Sky - Small Town Life
Fall is here in the desert. The temperatures are wonderful in the day and the sun doesn't feel as hot. The nights have a chill and its time to break out the wood stoves in the evenings. The sunrises...
View ArticleMadam President Liberia
Yesterday evening I arrived in Monrovia, Liberia. Guess who was on the plane on the Brussels to Monrovia leg? The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who happens to be the first elected female...
View ArticlePassing of Time
Time is such a weird concept, isn't it? I am referring to how sometimes it can move so fast and at other times so slow. Everyone always talks about how as we get older time moves faster. It is a common...
View ArticleThanksgiving Photos
Just some Scenic Byway photos from Thanksgiving week in Utah and the long drive home to the California desert.
View ArticleKITTY!!!
Kitty!!!! We have a bobcat in our yard! We thought one was around the area but we finally have evidence. Paul bought the most awesome thing - one of these motion sensor video cameras. Hunters use them...
View ArticleThe Moon Last Night...
The moon last nightwas so bright.Moving in and out of the clouds.Creeping, peeking, beaming, pouringlight upward to the skyand downward to the ocean and the shore.While the stars, and I, watched.
View ArticleWinter
Finally it is starting to feel like Winter here in the desert. The temperatures are dropping, both in the day and night time. Today it rained most of the day. A bone chilling rain.We are staying in a...
View ArticleArt Basel Miami 2012
Well Art Basel Miami is over for this year, and we missed it, breaking a multiple year in a row attendance record for my husband, and two years for me.We decided long ago we wouldn't attend this year...
View ArticleMagic on the Byway
I know a magic place where blue jays will practically sit on you looking for food and will eat from your hands.We know of two of them now. They live in a beautiful wooded path near our home. They will...
View ArticleDecember 2012
December sunriseWalking Roadrunner Rut RoadBackyard cottontailsBunny shadowsDecember 21 - ring around the moon - the largest I've ever seen
View ArticleFireplace Rock Wall + Recycled Old Wood
One of my favorite things in the house we are building is the fireplace in the great room, which will sit into a rock wall.The fireplace will have a wrap around hearth using large rocks. This will flow...
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