SWF-Weavers of Cloudglyphs

Last Sunday the Weaver Mountains called my name.

So right out my front yard I went for a walk.

The sky was filled with cloudglyphs.

The message ever changing.

I had to no way to text them.

So sat down and enjoyed.

Wonder if these flying folks had a different conversation?

Upon my return the cloud folk had departed leaving behind the famous Arizona blue sky.

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Our World–New Year’s Day hike OR Life’s a balancing act

Enjoying a hike into the Weaver Mountains where the rocks piled high remind me that life's a balancing act.  Second new year for...

SWF – Stormy sky over the Weaver Mountains

On the drive home from Grand Canyon storm clouds came and went along the way.

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MWT - Placerita Arizona

Along the Wagner road lies the old town site of Placerita which you read more about here.

SWF – Sky watching from the Weavers

Mike watching the sky while on yesterday’s hike into the Weaver Mountains. More about that in previous post.

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Welcome Home Walk in the Weavers

I went for a walk in the Weaver Mountains yesterday

with my true love.

This would make for a prickly valentine.

As did the luscious fruit

 

when I ate a small piece and got a tiny hair-fine spine in my tongue.

So nice to have this remote high desert place with a rarely used gravel two track within a mile of home.

We didn’t walk alone.

I’ve posted these dynamically carved ridges before (here and here).

Made up of granitic plutons exposed to the surface by the power of erosion over time.

There are 4-9 acre lots for sale here that are priced sky high.

But ya’ gotta’ have a dream.

We walked up to a different lot than last time.

What a grand view of Congress in the valley about 2000 feet (609.6 m) below,

and beyond perhaps 60 miles (96.5 km).

It may not be like looking into the Grand Canyon but from this vantage will do for a while.

Our return walk followed a dry wash where the old yet recent flows of water revealed its erosive power.

It was a beautiful sunny afternoon for a walk in the high desert Weaver Mountains yet the bright ornament-like galls on this oak reminded me of Christmas coming.

MWT - More Weaver Mountains

I guess you’ll be seeing a bit more of the Weaver Mountains because they are in my back yard. (Scroll down two posts for my New Year's Day walk.)

Balancing rock
How wonderful to walk under a clear blue sky in the high desert, about 50F with barely a breeze in the late afternoon.

Lichen on granite
My heart is set free and my mind wanders over the land further than my feet will tread this day.

Vulture Mts about 60 miles in the distance
I could live here enjoying the view over morning coffee.

Cholla
Need to get up there in the morning to see the light. Yet at 25F as the sun rises I don’t think that will happen soon.

Land four sale
I really don’t want to see this land developed but with the current housing crunch I don’t think they’ll be selling soon. These 4-9 acre properties are listed from $65,000 to 175,000. Utilities have been brought in along the access roads.

Some of the many curves of Highway 89, left to Yarnell and right to Congress
If I was building, my house would not be within sight of any roads or neighbors.

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Scenic Sunday - Weaver Mountain walk

Road into Weaver Mts
Finally got myself out of the house and motivated to walk on the first day of 2010.

Kissing rocks
About a mile from where I live in the boulders there is a gated access road into a someday housing development on the eastern flanks of the Weaver Mountains.

View east towards town
After climbing over the gate I can follow several miles of semi-graded dirt roads or take off across the landscape on animal trails.

I heard more birds than I saw, scared up a rabbit, spotted a few lizards scurrying into cracks in the rocks and saw the tracks and scat of coyote, deer, javelina, cattle, and maybe a bobcat.

Yes, a pond in the desert
I really do need to get outside more often and walk in nature. I don’t make New Year’s resolutions, yet it does seem like a good time to make some changes. Karen at FabGrandma’s got me to thinking about goals for this year.

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