Squiggee ..." I don't think this is Bethesda "

The photo at the top of the blog...is a night blooming Cyrus Cactus....everyone here is crazy for these beautiful flowers, but unless you are a vampire....dah...they bloom at night and by the time the sun rises ...poof the blossom just curls up and is gone.....so like so many crazy Easterners that have moved to the West...I was up with Camera in hand bathrobe on and forget slippers...shoes and socks...because according to the flyer's in our community, mornings are pitted with danger ...you could find a rattlesnake curled up on your step or just plain hanging around in wait for the idiot with a camera trying to get a blooming shot of the flowers....luckily the only living creature I encountered before sun rise was masses of bees around these amazing blooms....obviously the bees are hip to the whole process....
the reason for the shoes is that if you encounter a var met, you can run faster in shoes and socks...I mean...lets be real...everyone out here wears sandals or fflops....now that is OK if you are strolling done 5Th Ave. in NYC...when the only real danger is stepping in doggie doo...or street stuff...which runs the gamut of hot tar to unmentionables ( you get my drift)...hardly life threatening...but here in the land of snakes, scorpions, so tiny and deadly...and some strange wild thing resembling a pig...but not a pig...that smells so bad you can tell he is near.... cornered this pig like creature will turn and attack...please....then there is the coyotes.....that are allowed to wander where ever they please, they are protected...crap from whom , you ask!
I am not afraid of the Quail that endlessly travel back and forth across the road ,family in tow....and as time increases and the little ones get bigger, their numbers decrease...you got it... something ate them....
in old westerns , you had the feeling danger was just around the corner...how absurd...lol.....at night forget it...the coyotes just stroll up and down the streets and as far as the snakes...I have no idea, so you have to have a light when taking the dogs out at night...like I would go out at night and creep around........everyone says that the snakes are more afraid of you...bull--it!....they have obviously never encountered a Bethesda Chevy Chase Bitch...name Squiggee !.....threatening to slap a snake with your Gucci bag does not scare them !..I read that some where...maybe in Sunset Mag.

God's Own Palette

For someone born at George Washington Hospital and never venturing farther West than West Virginia...the colors are unreal...as a painter you can't imagine how humble you feel when God does his thing....these photos I took just an hour ago at dusk, show how beautiful the West really is..these were taken right outside the kitchen door facing West at dusk... imagine the Rockies right out your door....this really is a vast country once you get away from the congestion of the East Coast....I think I am falling in love with the seer open space..........I can see what people come out here for...to catch your breath and just enjoy....