Our World–Highway 89 5th Annual Yard Sale

Saturday, November 5th in Peeples Valley and Yarnell located on Highway 89 many local people set up their tables of yard sale goods on the sidewalks in...

SWF–Back to Yarnell sunset

No matter where I travel, it’s great to be back home for...

MWT – Five Alive

Life is too short and flies by way too fast.

Only five weekends left at the canyon, not including this holiday one when I prefer not to travel or go anywhere during the American’s last hurrah of summer.

Mike mentioned getting a permit to camp on Widforss Point Monday night which requires a beautiful five mile hike each way and I just couldn’t get motivated for that. Besides, next weekend we want to go to Bryce Canyon National Park and occasionally I just need time off. Like at home spending too much time online.

The “winter” planning time rapidly approaches. For the last five years I’ve lived in central Arizona, not working, collecting unemployment, playing and travelling when I can afford it. It’s a great life. And the best part, I met Mike there!

This year I actually applied for five winter jobs thinking I’d need to keep working to afford to buy a newer RV. But I don’t really want to work this winter. I’d rather go home with my honey to friends and family fun times. Life should be in balance.

So now it must be time to move beyond five, as this is my 600th post and next month I’ll begin my third year of blogging, and return to those glorious Yarnell sunsets. Life is Good!

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Diverse walk in the Weavers

I’ve been home in Yarnell this weekend and it feels like summer. (Especially compared to the snow on the North Rim.)

Cactus blooming…

…flowers popping with color.

Every where I turned something caught my eye.

Or caught my pants.

What a beautiful world we live in.

From the small and unusual…

…to a tiny hidden alcove of usual desert plants.

We can look down on the world from above,

or look up at the sky from below.

As life scurries along,

I just want to enjoy it all.

The sun reflects on one flower,

and barely finds another.

The old stalks may lean towards the earth…

…while the young reach for the sky.

And water gathers in the draw…

…providing a playground.

My World changes with the seasons

During winter I’m a vegetable. I hunker in and spend way too much time online which saves me from spending much money.

Come the much desired spring I return to work as a seasonal Park Ranger at Grand Canyon National Park, the North Rim.

Actually I leave Yarnell’s flowering spring.

To find winter still clinging to the Colorado Plateau.

During training the staff hikes rim-to-rim, north to south.

This year will be my fourth crossing.

Summer is my favorite. Flowers start to bloom in June and subtly change through July on the canyon’s rim.

I greet visitors from around the world who come to see one of the Seven Wonders of the world, Grand Canyon.

Summer monsoons bring the gift of life.

And wildlife abounds.

Rangers get paid in sunsets.

When the leaves change colors and fall my work season is over.

And I return to Yarnell where this winter I’ve been living in the little house with Mike.

So the seasons start again.

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Sky Watch Friday - Yarnell Sunset

I just never get tired of the magnificent sunsets seen out my window.

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1 Year Blogaversary

One year old
I made it a year. Never thought I’d share so much of my life with the cyberworld.

My office view from Point Imperial
It started at Grand Canyon National Park with my first tentative post and changed the way I take photos forever.

Karen at end of Cape Final trail
Thanks to FabGrandma who introduced me to the world of blog, I now spend way too much time online, especially when on dialup, filling my need for an audience. I’m now following a dream of writing; maybe someday I’ll get paid for it but not by advertisements. Thanks Karen! ;-)

I’ve showed you where I live in my old RV both at the canyon...

...and Yarnell.

Didn’t know I had so much to say (that’s a lie). But then I did share quite a bit of my history. Dragging you around the country where I’ve lived and traveled over the past 15 years on the ever awesome My World Tuesday meme.

You met my long time travel companion Carson and consoled me at the end of his life’s journey.

I’ve introduced you to some of my dearest friends and family.

The best part about blogging is all the fantastic people I’ve met from around the world. You can see the constantly growing list of blogs I follow on the side bar. I learn so much from each of you. Thank you my friends.

Joshua Tree and Salton Sea
I plan to keep on blogging, at least for the next six winter months which are all I can plan at once. I hope to share with you as I explore more of the area around Yarnell, see my step-son in San Diego with side trips to Joshua Tree NP, the Salton Sea and Anza-Borrego Desert, a quick trip to south Texas where my parents live, and best of all, South Africa where I’ll actually get to meet my first fellow blogger Joan, the Bug Lady, of SAPhotographs. I'd really like to meet you all.

I AM addicted to Blog!

PS: Yesterday I was given an award by Alan at Yogi's Den. So I'll be passing it along.