The Hill and other snapshots

     Yesterday morning Tuesday 9 November 2010

and this morning

     I don't have anything to say for myself. I'm still recovering from all the driving and sight seeing I did whilst Johnny was visiting. When we went up to Big Lake and through Apache National Forest  to  Alpine I took only one snapshot before the camera batteries died.

     I've lived in Arizona for just over thirteen years and am only just now getting around to reading Edward Abbey

     And here's a picture of Chloë. She's just over a year old now.

Sunset

and a rainbow from a week ago

and the hill again this evening

     Finished reading Death In Venice. This novella should be read at one sitting. That is I should read in a secluded place where I can not be disturbed or distracted.

I am now reading a French mystery in translation published last year in France as Le Paradoxe de Vasalis. This paragraph in chapter two gave me pause:

      This didn't stop Jacob and his family finding themselves utterly alone when the SS came for them in August 1942. After a stay at the Dracy Interment Camp, they were sent to Dachau. Happily, a week earlier, an intuition had caused Jacob to send his eldest son to London, accompanying several containers full of pictures, sculptures and furniture.

 

The Other Side of the Hill . . .

Took a little drive this morning heeding this sign:

And this caught my eye:

Good afternoon

The hill.

Ah, blessed rain; not a monsoon down-pour but a steady rain.

Mid-Summer's Day

      I finally, after taking too long to get used to the altitude and dry heat after being in the moist air of England at sea level for the past five weeks or so, feel like posting a picture of the hill again. Culverts and the bridge that carries route 260 over the Little Colorado are being worked on hence the trailers and other works paraphernalia parked by the road.

       Kathy and I have planted a few more herb and vegetable plants and tidied up the yard and gardens a bit. We are fostering a dog for the local voluntary animal rescue.

      I am currently reading Paul: The mind of the Apostle by A.N. Wilson; Robin Hood by J C Holt and Walking English: A Journey in Search of Language by David Crystal.

Not again?

Yes, more snow again

The next post will be from Blighty on Albion, Albion

And I scored another 48 on the first DSA theory practice test. 96%

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