Relief!

During the summer, I had paid $100 to fill my van with gas! 

On Tuesday, it only cost me $60!  Oh, it was beautiful! 

Trip to Nevada

My neck is getting better, and I finally took the time to upload my photos onto photobucket.  It still doesn't work as fast as it should, but it did work. Some time ago, I mentioned a surprise trip we were about to make.  We sold our trailer (because we hadn't used it in 4 years!) and the older man that bought it, paid us extra to tow it to his land in Nevada!  We did it!  It was a 7 hour drive one way.  We only stopped for gas, and had lots of food in the van.  My mom went, too.  We had a great time singing to oldies songs and enjoying the scenery of the California High Desert along Hwy 395.  We arrived in Goldfield, NV, got the trailer set up, then drove to the small silver mining town of Tonapah, NV.  We ate dinner and got a motel room. The next morning, we were able to go to the silver museum.  The mine is not working, but you can tour it, we didn't have time.  Then we drove west through the mountains, back into CA, and to the Ancient Bristlcone Pine Forest.  I'll write more about them next time.  For now, Hhere are lots of pics from our first segment of the trip, with captions, coming above each pic. Most of these were taken from the car, while driving along Hwy 395.  I wasn't driving. ;)

Red Rock Canyon

Scenery on Hwy 395, through the high desert of California

Joshua Trees were in abundance

Another Red Rock picture

I'm pretty sure this is Mt. Whitney, the tallest mountain in CA:

Happy California Cows

Happy Calfornia Horses:

Not so happy cows:

I think these are all in Nevada:

 

Goldfield, NV, where we delivered the trailer:

A rock that looks like bacon:

The main flowers we saw on our trip, Rabbit Brush:

Silver in the raw:

The old silver mine and museum in Tonapah, NV:

These are silver, worth $10,000!

More Joshua Trees:

1930s Marital Scale

This is interesting.  I scored 74, "Superior"!  Try it!

1930s Marital Scale

Wild Parrots

We have a flock of wild parrots in our neighborhood!  We have seen them twice in the last couple of weeks, in the tree across the street.  This is the closest we could get with our zoom, without scaring them off: