Yard Art and Blooming Cacti

It was a nice day yesterday, and I made good on my threat to get out for a walk in the next door neighborhood. There isn't a lot to see at this time of year. Almost nothing is blooming except possibly some of the cacti. The first bit of yard art I saw were these birdhouses attached to someone's mailbox post.

And isn't there always one in every neighborhood? People who don't keep up with their general home maintenance projects. Or possibly this is the neighborhood frat house. What do you think?

Walking on, there was a pencil cholla. I put my finger there for scale. Its branches aren't much bigger in diameter than a pencil...about the diameter of a #1 pencil.

Here's one of the larger chollas. Its branches are closer to the diameter of my wrist.

Walking on, I noticed these chickens and briefly considered them as a subject for my next art quilt.

The only flowers I saw were the blooming rosemary plants. These were alive with bees. With so little blooming right now, it isn't surprising the bees would congregate here.

Okay...and here's a message for you. Woofies, pay attention!

This next one is for my pig-loving friend, Sue.

And I'm really hoping we'll see some of these little burros when we visit the Burro Range in a couple of weeks. I doubt any of them will be hitched to carts, however.

Walking back to the RV park, I noticed an army of vintage Thunderbirds parked in a row in the parking lot. It was lunch time, and so I'm guessing this is a club get-together.

Back at the RV, I had some lunch, and then went digging through my stash of embroidery floss to find this metallic blue floss from another project.

I had in mind to stitch a snowflake in that one spot where the piecing error was. The space is only one-inch square, and so there wasn't much room to get very fancy. I free-hand stitched this little snowflake into that space. When I get home, I'll add some tiny hot fix crystals or else some beads to this spot to give it even a little more sparkle.

The piecing error is still fairly obvious, but I like this fix.

Smitty has his opinion about it too, but he wisely kept quiet.

I'm still waiting for the morning's inchy to be posted. We've already had our Sunday morning blueberry pancakes. We need to make a quick trip to the grocery store today to pick up some last-minute items before we head into that grocery store desert known as Death Valley National Park. I'm trying to remember what the situation is there at Death Valley, but it isn't coming to me with any certainty. If memory serves, we had internet access, but such poor signal quality that I wasn't able to upload pictures. And if memory serves even further, I think I posted each day with a time traveling link to a previous visit. Pictures were already uploaded, and so the link would take you to something about Death Valley that might keep you entertained until we're back in business.

So all of that to say I might not post next week. Or, I might post something old. Or, I might post just as usual. It's impossible to say. For sure and certain, I will not be posting tomorrow since it's a get-out-of-town-and-drive-to-the-next-destination day. And whatever happens, I'll see you on the other side.