the big chill / knee update / osprey

As much as I’d like to credit good planning for being in mild weather, it’s more of a fluke based on average weather patterns. I’m in extreme SW Arizona in one of the few places in the western US with mild weather because it tends to be warmer here in winter, not because I foresaw

fly-by

April 11th fly-by Fort Pearce OHV area, Utah April 25th fly-by I was sitting outside (Hurricane Mesa) reading when I heard an R/C airplane spun up in the distance.  I looked for it and but saw a thick cloud of bees instead headed inbound from about 10′ away.   I sat very still and figured I’d

river bottom, and a fly-by

down by the riverside Muffin and I walked down a rocky ravine down into the river bottom. I couldn’t see the whole thing from the campsite above, but I knew it was passable because there’s a Hereford (mix?) bull that appears up top and in the river bottom on subsequent days.   The bull is a