This Weekend - A Ride in the Desert

Hello, my sweet friends!

I hope this Monday morning finds you well and happy,

and ready to take on a brand new week.

♥

I'm on cup-of-coffee-#2 as I type, and Lucky is running around like a maniac. Man, he's such a morning person dog. I'm slow moving this morning, coming off of a fun and busy weekend, though I'm not really complaining! Just sayin. 

 

Saturday was filled with running here and there, and then attending a party for our niece Bethann who just completed her State Board exam and is officially a Registered Nurse {{{proud}}}. We celebrated with the family Saturday evening and stayed up late, which made Sunday morning feel like the kind of day you just wanted to laze around.

 

But Doug had set his sights on taking a drive to check the trail camera he had set up, so I threw a picnic lunch together, slathered on the sunscreen and bug repellant, grabbed my camera and we hit the road.

 

 

We drove through Globe and headed up past Roosevelt Lake {for my locals who may wonder where these photos were taken}. The weather was beautiful, although still a bit on the warm side - a perfect day for being out on the quad.

 

Being in this part of the state is just so awesome. It's so wide-open and vast that it makes us temporarily forget about the hustle and bustle of the city we live in. And photos will never do it justice - like the one shown above. Doug had taken the quad off the back of his truck and I snapped this photo of the mountain range behind him. It is huge and expansive, though hard to tell by looking here.

 

We parked near a corral that's used by cattle ranchers, and I still find myself looking for items for Rinda's summertime photography scavenger hunt even though it's over until next year. {Item #13 - a fence}

 

 

Look closely and you can see our road in the photo above - definitely taking the road less traveled!

 

When Doug came home from a recent hunting trip, he told me about a heart-shaped rock he'd found that was too big to bring home. We rode the quad for a while then parked and hiked up to this spot so he could show me the rock. Two things: 1) I loved the rock; and 2) It makes me a little nervous to see these places where Doug hikes by himself. They are remote and treacherous, but oh so beautiful. It's no wonder he looks forward to his time outside.

 

And the next thing you know, it's Monday morning in the city and time to work our way through another week. It's going to be a busy one - lots going on at work and stuff around the house too. How fortunate am I to have so many positive things that beg for my attention. I am definitely living the life here, friends.

Living the life.

♥