It’s been a nice day here as well. First day of sun in a week!
What a cool picture.
Winter is beloved weather.
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Winter can be pretty, but it takes 3 other nice seasons to make up for winter weather.
It’s December 1 and over 60° here today though. Good thing too as we got about 2inches of rain yesterday. Last week it would been 2feet of snow, when it was in the 20s.
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Your weather changes just like a client.
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LOL … it sure does lately 
Meanwhile I just had to use AC in my car because it was getting hot, LOL.
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Having to turn on the AC sounds really nice right now.
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crappy picture. Visitors today
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Eastern bluebirds? We don’t have those in the western U.S. I wish we did.
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Yup. I didn’t know they stayed around in winter. Let alone come that close to a house. Suet feeder with mealy worms in it instead of suet.
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I’m reminded today of one of the nice parts of winter: peace and quiet. You don’t get lawn mowers, leaf blowers, weed eaters, tree trimmers, lawn aerators, utility companies doing work, road construction, etc. I know, I know, “first world problems” and all, but something has been going on outside for about two hours, and the constant drone is driving me crazy.
The irony of this is that I enjoy doing yard work and use all of the power tools. So I’m as much a part of the problem as any one else.
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Hah. Reminds me of something of a rant I posted on our neighborhood board last June:
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I also think some are just more prone to make as much noise as possible. We are fairly lucky here and the place is mowed on schedule and we rarely hear the neighbors … just at a distance perhaps. There is the odd siren or chainsaw now and again. Here in the building, most are quiet. They come and go all day long but you really wouldn’t notice until you hear the door clicking. Again, not intolerable. However, there is one couple upstairs that you always know when they leave or come in. They are either yacking loudly on their phone and laughing and talking with each other as though they are shouting across a crowded arena. When they come down the stairs they sound like a herd of buffalo dragging luggage behind them. I’ve never heard two people make so much racket in my life! Thank the powers that be that they aren’t the apt directly over us … I can only imagine lol 
This discussion reminds me of a documentary I saw at Sundance a few years ago titled, Shut Up, Little Man!
These two college-aged guys in San Francisco moved into a cheap, rundown apartment that happened to be right next to an apartment where a couple of old, unemployed, alcoholic gay guys were living. The old guys screamed at each other day and night with non-stop insults and vile threats.
The two younger guys set up microphones outside their neighbors’ windows and recorded hundreds of hours of the screaming, cursing and vicious threats. After the old guys finally drank themselves to death, if I remember right, the younger guys compiled the worst of screaming matches into a movie they screened at Sundance.
I walked out of that movie thinking, I’d never again complain about our neighbor’s 6 am lawn mower or the loud bubbling hum from their hot tub. It could always be worse.
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Yesterday afternoon, we decided on an overnight camping trip to a spot not far from our place in south-central Utah. This is mostly a little-known, out-of-the-way area (no paved roads). Last night, for some reason, we had it all to ourselves. Anyway, our view from just outside the tent at sunset.
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Spectacular!
Talk about a breathtaking view! Wow!
It’s part of an unpopulated 2,000 square-mile chunk of the state called the San Rafael Swell, which is full of this kind of scenery. Now and again, the subject of it becoming Utah’s sixth national park comes up, but the locals in adjacent areas want it left alone without many visitors, which is just fine.
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Thanks for sharing your photo, Just-B. I have never seen Utah, except out the window of a 767. My wife and I have been to California and Nevada to visit friends for many years including Yosemite, Monterey & Pacific Grove, Hurst Castle, Hwy 1, and to San Francisco more times than we can count, but nothing overland beyond ski resorts in Colorado. We’ve been talking about flying to Tuscan, renting a car and taking a month long tour of that part of the U.S. but it seems recently when we start making plans, one of us has some kind of health issue. Shoulder surgery, knee surgery, hip surgery, etc. Nevertheless, I think this might be our big trip for next year.