Agave

The Agave in my front yard is blooming. I did some reading to see what species Agave I have, and I still don't know, there are over 300 species of Agave. Apparently they take 8 - 10 years to bloom, so I am fortunate to have this in my front yard. I'll take some more pictures as time goes by to see what happens.

Hiking, Pipeline Canyon Trail, Lake Pleasant

I went hiking today... it was a beautiful day.

Lake Pleasant.


Looking back on the trail.


Lake Pleasant and Indian Mesa.


Lake Pleasant. There is a sailboat on the lake.


Reflections.


The trail.


One fisherdude. He said the fish didn't like what he was fishing with.


Lake Pleasant.


A tree heart.


Another tree heart.

Lastly, the flowers:

My Ball

Cierra is hoarding her last two balls. Our foster dog has destroyed all the others. The ones that are left are cheap glow-in-the-dark dog balls I picked up at WalMart. It's funny how the $2 ball outlasted the $6 squeaky dog ball.

Cierra says "my ball"


"See..."


Distracted.


I liked the wispy clouds.

A Blast From My Texas Past

Each year, Houston holds this amazingly fun Art Car Parade.

John and I had a favorite car we watched for each year. I think our favorite thing were the rollerblades under the back of the car. I've swiped these photos off various sources from the internet. I had my own but they were lost in the divorce.

Wreck-less Driving School, the Student Driver car:






PS - John - I think they've added some things to the car, eh? I don't remember the tree on the front of the car?

Sunny Rain and The Cloudy Full Moon

Can you see the rain?


Last day of February full moon.

John's Ride: Dual Sport Desert Daze

John went for a ride this weekend, he participated in the Dual Sport Desert Daze ride. John rode about 100 miles Friday and about 200 miles Saturday. He said he had a great time and learned some things to do differently next trip. For his next ride he hopes to have a different luggage system and a bivy sack rather than a tent + sleeping bag.

John's riding partner, Becky; on her DRZebra.


A little bit of pavement.


Becky's only "oops" during a turn around. After John took her picture, he helped her pick up her bike.


The gas-line road.


This is my favorite scenery picture.


A view of the trail.


Becky with her DRZebra.


John's camping spot.


Soto Brothers & Renaud, a general store in Pearce, Arizona.


Montazuma Pass, Coconino National Forest.


On the boarder, looking in to Mexico.


John called this a moonbow, to welcome him home.

Scan-tastic

My hiking buddy, Mr. Bosseh-Pants, is going to school... he wants to become a "Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer". He needed a guinie pig for practice, so I volunteered. After a few hours I'd seen lots of things inside me from my neck down to my ankle.

Getting started on the carotid artery in my neck and my thyroid.


In Mr. Bosseh-Pants' words, this is what we're looking at: "a dual image of your posterior tibial veins, with compression of the vein on the right side, showing that it has no thrombosis at that location". In other words, my left leg.


Walking down the hallway of his school, I had to chuckle at these dummies. They are in the Respitory Tech room. It's nice that they are modest dummies and have clothes on.