Last Weekend of May and Some Pictographs

...and it's a dreary one here! Hard to believe summer is less than a month away with this unseasonably cool and wet weather. Theoretically we should see sun today - we'll see...I miss it!

Last week's trip to UT and CO - flying into Salt Lake City, visiting nine project sites, in places like Vernal UT, Grand Junction, Paonia, and Breckenridge CO, along the Green, Colorado, and Blue Rivers (among others), was time well spent. We even got to sight see a little bit on our way through at a place called Canyon Pintado National Historic District on Highway 64 out of Rangley CO.

We stopped at four of the sites along the route:

East Four mile Site … mile post 61.3

Yes that is a bullet hole above the pictographs!

See the horse?

Canyon Pintado Site … mile post 56.0Those of you who know me, know that Kokopelli is one of my favorite, if not THE favorite, mythological creature!

Waving Hands Site … mile post 53.5

Carrot Man Site … mile post 11.6

This demonish-looking fellow is called the Guardian - don't know why...

These stops were a nice break along the drive - this is definitely somewhere I want to explore more in-depth when I can get back to this neck of the woods on some personal time!

I think that's enough for this posting - will probably post again tomorrow on writing - am still cogitating on that one!

Wild and Wooly Weather for May

Yes, I took last week off from this blog - instead I spent Saturday at the Sacramento Scottish Games in Woodland dancing to two of my favorites bands - Tempest and Wicked Tinkers. Sunday, was Mother's Day, and we were entertaining his mother, brother and sister-in-law here, so my morning was spent cleaning like a mad woman and making sure tables were set, flowers were cut, etc. We had a lovely visit with them and as a bonus, my son, his lady, and my adorable grandbabies came by.

In the end, I went back to work on Monday to recover from a very busy and fun-filled weekend!

This weekend is a bit more sedate. We had dinner at his ex-wife's house on Friday to celebrate the 28th birthday of his oldest son - dinner was outside and my allergies decided to hit full force for the first time all season. Needless to say, meds were on the menu when we got home that evening! Yesterday I attended the NCPA meeting and then we headed up to Grass Valley for his niece's wedding. We stayed in the Marilyn Monroe Room at this adorable B&B called the Victorian Lady Inn.


Now, this is where the wild and wooly weather comes in...you'd think a May wedding would have beautiful, if perhaps a bit warmish, weather. Well, for this one, we were lucky that the weather held - it was breezy, with clouds passing overhead, and bits of sun here and there. The ceremony was held outdoors, and the poor bride and her party had goosebumps!


The rain even held off until after the reception, which ended about 11pm. It came soon after though, and then, by the time we woke up, it was snowing! Not heavy, but nice, flowing between light drops to big flakes to what my husband called "corn snow" - and small bits of hail at times as well. So, we got to eat a wonderful breakfast watching the snow come down - beautiful!


On the drive back down the hill, we hit heavy rain in Auburn, and by the time we got back down to Rocklin, we were experiencing thunderstorms - very cool! And we got hit with a bit more hail, both in Auburn and then again after we got home. And now, the sun is peeking through now and again, and the weather is rather sedate - light breeze, gusting at times, some clouds going over.

The AMGEN Tour of California even had to reschedule the start of today's leg and shorten in by nearly 2/3ds the distance due to this wild and wicked weather!