kaleidoscope thursday

The diving snowman's little sister.

She is very fashionable in her sweet lavender scarf.

Her stick arms are waving frantically at her brother as she is yelling, "noooo... don't go off the diving board... it's too dangerous!"

This is her after she had been kaleidoscoped.

And this is her ten minutes after the sun came out.

She should have worn some sunscreen.

sunday winter edition

Mysterious particles on my camera lens.

In the wee early hours this morning I woke up to hear it raining. It lulled me back to sleep.

Later, I was awakened by a very loud chilling sound, which I assumed was a coyote. I heard the same noise the other day too, not quite a howl, not quite a bark, so I'm just not sure what it is. Anyway, I decided this time, I would just get up and greet the morning.

I pulled on my coat and grabbed the camera and ran outside. When I turned the camera on, I saw the two pictures from above and that is when I knew that Leah had beaten me to take pictures of the snowy morning. Always the early riser in the family, she was awake before the sun came up. I'm glad she got those early morning photos while it was still falling from the sky. It had stopped snowing by the time I got up and was already starting to melt.

This is what I saw when I drug my lazy tired self out of bed.

The saguaros had a little clump of snow on the top of each arm.

The tall palm trees look a little out of place with the snowy roof in the foreground.
The little cactus had a cap of snow on the top of it.
And here is the "favorite photo spot" all full of winter.
Oh hello. Looks like someone has come out to play!

Snow writing. Snow?!

What do you do with the largest, most industrial ski gloves you can find in the old mitten box and some very wet snow?

You make a snowman of course!

And when you live in Arizona and you have a pool... what does any fun loving snowman want to do? Be daring and try a front flip off the diving board of course!

With a little help from his friend.
As the dark clouds were lifting...
The mountains were appearing. We commented, while we were eating lunch and looking out the window at the snowy mountains, that it really didn't seem unusual to see snow on mountains because that is how we were used to seeing the mountains out our windows in Colorado. To most people around here, it is probably a very rare sight. To us, it just seems natural. Winter like. The way mountains are suppose to look in February. It brought a smile to our face.
So much happy in fact, that Leah updated our Today is a Good Day stand that has been on our kitchen counter for the last few years. Sometimes, it doesn't take much effort to find something to write on it.
Today was one of those day's.

And now, I'm going to grab my coat and my warm gloves and maybe even a scarf... and go out and join Leah for a nice wintery walk.

A good day indeed.