Some desert stuff

[gb6491]

The deer raid the fields around the Gila River bed at night:



They head back into the more difficult places of early morning;




Regards,
Greg

[gb6491]

Regards,
Greg

[Bawanna]

Some of them trees and bushes look like they could use a little water. Still awful pretty country. Not sure I could handle the heat but I guess you get used to it if you try hard and long enough.

[gb6491]

Just some odds and ends and I'll stop:
Uncle Sam got his money's worth with this survey marker (on post since 1912):


Loco weed:



Some Indian petroglyphs from the Sears Point site:




Lastly, I'm happy to have my CW45 back



Regards,
Greg

[gb6491]

Some of them trees and bushes look like they could use a little water. Still awful pretty country. Not sure I could handle the heat but I guess you get used to it if you try hard and long enough.

The thing about getting used to the heat is that you looking for a jacket when it's 84 degrees in the morning.

[Southerngunner]

The thing about getting used to the heat is that you looking for a jacket when it's 84 degrees in the morning.

Thats the truth ,its easy to tell the locals from the snowbirds because when it gets to 75 degrees they show up and we put on long pants and get our jackets out while they walk around in t shirts and shorts all winter.

[CJB]

Looks like Hillary Clinton and Johnny Depp out together (again)!

[AIRret]

gb………I love it!!!!!

We should have been out your way last winter………bit Lord Willing we just might make a tour of the South West next winter!!!!!

Thanks for sharing those photos, they made my day!

[Bawanna]

Yup, I know several snow birds and they say the same thing. They go down there and get sick near every time.

The locals as you say grab a sweater when the sun goes down but it's still way hotter than we are accustomed to.

Where we fish ever summer (about 3 weeks away) it often gets 100 during the day but it cools down to 40 and 50 at night so a body can sleep. Kind of nice.

We used to fish all night on the dock and we'd wear snowmobile suits and gloves and near freeze to death and then it'd be 100 the next day.

[AIRret]

Yup, I know several snow birds and they say the same thing. They go down there and get sick near every time.

The locals as you say grab a sweater when the sun goes down but it's still way hotter than we are accustomed to.

Where we fish ever summer (about 3 weeks away) it often gets 100 during the day but it cools down to 40 and 50 at night so a body can sleep. Kind of nice.

We used to fish all night on the dock and we'd wear snowmobile suits and gloves and near freeze to death and then it'd be 100 the next day.

Sounds like a personal problem….just saying!!!!!!!

Just kidding!

[wyntrout]

Neat, Gary. Thanks for sharing. We saw a Red-Tailed Hawk fly over in front of us when we were coming back from Illinois a few weeks ago. I remarked that I could actually see the red tail.

Wynn

[b4uqzme]

just a few feet outside our back door... waiting to raid a robin's nest.

[gb6491]

Thanks for the comments folks!

CJB, you might be on to something there

b4uqzme, that's pretty neat having one so close, thanks for sharing!

I do want to share another photo, especially since I got "photo bombed" by one of my dogs

Regards,
Greg

[ltxi]

Thanks, Greg. I love the desert!

[mr surveyor]

as a surveyor, the pic of the stone monuments (aka rock piles) were pretty cool, as was the 1912 capped monument. I'm also a big fan of hawks, no matter what variety. And the sun rise....sun set .... dogs..... maybe not the freaky dummies in the lounge chairs....

Any info on the rock piles, or were they staged?