jim owens
The middle of May until a little bit into June were active days. My birthday rolled around again and this brought the whole family down to southern Nevada. We hit the Sphere to see Dead and Company, found a speakeasy and a fancy-pants cocktail bar in downtown Las Vegas, spent a few balmy backyard nights […]
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 […]
What began as a great summer ended up being precisely that. I am hoping that the Summer months of extreme heat and smoke are a thing of the past for the Intermountain west, although I highly doubt it. At the very least this Summer proved to be a reprieve from what had become my expectation […]
In retrospect it has been a pretty sweet summer so far. I’ve spent more time than normal in the mountains of northern Utah which has been nice. The prior two summers of extreme heat and smoke just never materialized this year, and hopefully won’t in the next couple of months. Living in a place like […]