jim owens
We’re starting to fall into something of a Spring routine. A little back and forth, with and without dogs, between Park City and southern Nevada. Gardening down there. Family stuff up here. A few small town events. The Boulder City Garden tour. Listening to the first baseball of the true season over the internet. The […]
A quick down and back put me in Southern Nevada for ten days. On the day I arrived it was topping out somewhere in the 90’s. On the day we left it was 106, had just been 112, and was going to be bouncing around in that difficult 106 to 112 range for the foreseeable […]
Ah. Sigh. What a fun long weekend. We spent Memorial Day in Nashville, Tennessee. Not my idea. I was just tagging along. But a grand idea regardless. We were lucky with the weather and the layout of the town suits our desire to walk everywhere very well. We had a rental car which we didn’t […]
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 […]