Desert Skies

Summer in the desert is most notable for the sunsets. The summer rains mean that the Maxfield Parrish colors often take on a special depth when contrasted with lingering storm clouds. I've been trying to capture some of that contrast. I need to keep trying, but this inspiration makes it easy. And each night it's a different saturated color bomb.

In Which Autumn Sunsets Are Spectacular

Within minutes this deepened to a blood red orange, as if the horizon were on fire.

In Which The Beasts Are Named, and Lentils Are Consumed

Sunset from my backyard last summer. I thought those Maxfield Parrish colors were made up till I moved out here. Now I see them every day.

The dogs are known as Pupgirl and Mr. Big, a.k.a. She Who Roars and He Who Snores. They have joined me in middle age, and we are all feeling it, to one degree or another.

The lentil and barley shephard's pie was okay, but it needed more potatoes for the topping (I used all five that I had, but really 7 or 8 would have been better, if not 9 or 10). And some gravy. Everything is better covered with gravy.