This color is not the dirt. A week or so ago all the hills were green bottom to top. This is grass or a plant which turns a magenta color when it matures and goes to seed, and covers mainly the south facing slopes. A slope facing north will be green. In these two pictures I think it's awesome because of the color reflected into the water.
Looking toward the outlet of Boulder Lake and the Wyoming Range to the West.
Mountains to the east of Boulder Lake
More purple grass.
JUST THE FACTS:
- Up by 6 a.m. to get ready for a long day.
- Showered and fixed some breakfast, taking egg sandwich and cup of hot tea to eat along the way.
- Gathered up paint supplies, recycling, and necessary things for overnight stay at Arrowhead house and loaded all into SUV. Took dogs.
- Put mail to go into the mailbox and received prescription (yea! only one pill left) and some bills.
- Drove to Dr. Susie's to get Sparky's heart checked and both she and her associate say his heart is o.k. She recommended getting some B complex for his hyperactivity, barking and panting.
- Beautiful Drive up to Charm's at Boulder Lake to paint with the friends, took a few photos of the lake on the way.
- Finished Amelia's painting finally - I won't say how long it's been in progress- and worked on a new piece of pack horses going over Jackass Pass.
- Charm let Sparky and Raven sit with me in the shade on her deck and they were happy puppies to be included.
- Charm prepared us a really nice lunch of Mexican Hot Dish, Mango Salsa, Sauteed Yellow and Green Zucchini, Garnished with Lettuce, oranges and strawberries. Wine or Raspberry Lemonade, and Lemon Bars.
- Stayed too long, just having too nice a time, and was late getting to Pinedale for an appointment with the computer man.
- Had to drive up to Arrowhead to get the software.
- He spent about an hour and a half getting a history and seeing what he needs to work on. I think I made him late going home for dinner.
- I was too late to get the protime at the clinic.
- Got a cheeseburger and fries for dinner.
- Received a phone call for Clyde, "Wrong number", "Oh, maybe you can help me. I'm a handicapped man ......", CLICK!
- Used the Dyson vacuum to clean out the inside of the car, which was getting pretty hairy and gravelly. Driving with the windows down created a disgusting eddy of dog hair circulating in the air. Have to keep spitting it out.
- Cleaned the windows inside and dusted the door panels and dashboard.
- Watered the plants in the yard.
- All the plants Lois gave me are doing well so far, even the two aspen trees.
- But guess what! It looks like the gophers ate all the tulip bulbs - there are holes where the bulbs were planted.
- Still have those cottonwood sprouts to plant, they are in rooting hormone water, but I don't know where to put them.
- Put Amelia's painting in a frame, but don't have any clip-its to fasten it in.
- Worked on one of the issues with the blog. I signed up to be a follower on Betty's new blog, and clicked on a few "accept" buttons I wished I hadn't after reading the fine print of the privacy statement (they can do a lot with your account that I DON'T agree with), so spent quite some time to finally get back out of there. Will try it again later, without the accept buttons.
- Paid a couple of bills online.
- Decided to blog on the laptop one more time for today's journal.
- And will do a little entry for tomorrow.
- After that won't be able to blog until I get the computer back.
- I decided not to take the laptop to the ranch - too much hassle with the disconnecting and all the cords etc.
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