Tick Tack Toe anyone?

There was a very busy sky this morning!

Oops, I forgot yesterday! This is the front yard of a house I visited at work. I thought it was really neat that they had the wagon there. They also own a large parcel with a huge horse barn and horses. Nice!

This is a wall in the downtown "artsy" district of Las Vegas. There are lots of artsy things there; they are really trying to fix up the downtown area.

Arizona has saguaro cactus; Nevada only has them where people plant them in their yards. I love these cacti!

We stopped in Prescott Arizona at a place where there were huge rocks. It had been a park at one time but they are squeezing houses in amongst the rocks. They are nice, but I think I would have preferred the park. The flowering cactus growing from a crevice in these rocks caught my eye. It made me wonder how plants can grow from rocks in such precarious places. It showed me that we need to be firmly grounded, grow strong and bloom beautifully where ever we may be in whatever situation we might face. If these plants can do it, we should be able to also.

Today Dave and I drove to Phoenix. On the way we had to pass over the Hoover Dam. This is a bridge by-pass they are building just south of the dam. It's been fascinating to watch the slow progress on building it and exciting to see how close they are to connecting the Arizona and Nevada portions!

Posing like a modern art sculpture in the midst of the city's empty lots, plastic bags and other debris lodge in gnarly plants on empty lots. We have such winds here in the Spring that this is one of the results. Plastic bags from stores seem to float out of garbage cans and get stuck in the plants on empty lots. A great reason to take your own bags to the store and not use the store's bags!