jim owens
Ahhhh. Spring has sprung here in Southern Nevada. Ain’t life grand. The backyard critters are doing their Disney-cartoon-themed thing. Desert cottontails, jackrabbits, antelope ground squirrels, small lizards and gambel’s quail are darting in and out and hurriedly criss-crossing the yard. The chipmunk-like squirrels are particularly active munching on petunias, then climbing the ephedra and stripping […]
Back in Park City, Utah. Snow. More snow. Still more snow. Supposed to snow tonight and tomorrow and snow every day and night for the next two weeks. This was the sort of winter we had back in the early and mid-nineties. Back when some years it snowed on the fourth of July. I had […]
Back in Park City again where winter has begun in earnest. I’ve taken a small respite from my crazy regime of walking, four to six miles a day and usually in flipflops and carrying a camera, using the sudden abundant snow here as an excuse. Why flipflops? I have no idea. My nurse practitioner has […]
Another winter in the rear view mirror. Well not quite yet. I find myself back in Southern Nevada. And, yet again, watching the rising side of another corona virus wave. Park City has already passed the peak of it with the surrounding county achieving the tenth-worst status of all counties in the country just last […]
Finally, comfortable weather, and not just a small amount of it. Almost no smoke, just some at the time of our arrival in Southern Nevada. And temperatures that started at around 80 in the middle of August in Park City, then just above 90 at the end of September down here and are ending up […]