The Birds

I took this picture of a cacti in the desert. The desert is starting to bloom. I'll have to go out and snap some desert colour.

In the tree I saw one of those long neck birds close to our place. He's usually at the water edge fishing.

Keeping on the theme of The Birds, a hummingbird just hatched two eggs across from us. I don't know how it poops up top like that.

Here's Carol sweeping up after a sand storm. Still beats shoveling snow.

Carol went on a tour to stars homes. This is in front of Audery Hepburns house. (for Kristen who is a fan). She saw Sammy Davis Jr.'s house, Elvis's two houses, Dean Martins house and Liberachie's. Elizabeth Taylor's house took a whole block with several guest houses on the property. Many families still own the houses of the deceased.
Today we went to the College of the Desert Market with Dave and Linda and bought some fresh fruits and dates. Linda bought some more dresses. We ate lunch there and I had nice baby back ribs. They said I sure like my ribs, as I was stuffing my face.
Speaking of ribs, I smoked my first salmon a couple of days ago. The neighbour is a butcher by trade and sampled it. He gave it a ten out of ten. The perfect brine and smoke. He smokes a lot of meat so he's going to show me how to smoke a pork tenderloin. They are down here for winter and in Alaska for summer. A few doors down there is a couple who do the same. Now we are hankering to go to Alaska in summer again. We are also pondering a RV caravan trip to the tip of the Baja in Mexico next year with Dave and Linda. They were going to do that last year until she broke both ankles and came here instead, where we met and became good friends.