Out for a morning stroll pausing a moment to catch a sniff as I walk by.

Update: Once again, the future intrudes into the past, and once again, it arrives from 2o23. The original post titled Machie & Sugar was the single photo of the dogs at the top of the post, and the text there was all that was shared; such was the bandwidth limitations of 2005, but here in the future, we don’t suffer from those constraints.

After seeing the dogs early in the day, I went over to Dreamy Draw Park for a walk in the desert; this is some of what I saw.

We’d obviously had a wet spring because wasn’t bursting in orange, purple, red, and blue was a luscious verdant green.

It was just a little more than a month ago, here in 2023, that Caroline and I were on this trail coming from the opposite direction, but that doesn’t happen until the future, so I’ll just wait for it to catch up.

Even back in 2005, the ocotillo were blooming as they do in modern times. Kind of looks like a new kind of southwest candy corn, huh?

You could easily be deceived into thinking that I wasn’t even in Phoenix for this hike, but you’d be wrong.

What is mundane to people who live in the desert is likely exotic to those who don’t.

For a moment, I thought this was a sunset; nope, it’s a moon rise, and there’s a star nearly directly overhead already showing in the approaching night sky.