A different kind of hot air in the desert!

Well I thought I was done blogging for the year! I was at the computer this morning and I began hearing the sound of something loud and oddly familiar! It got louder and I could tell it was coming closer whatever it was! Then a large shadow fell on the house and the shape was round! A Balloon! I jumped into action grabbed the camera and headed to the back yard! There were two balloons, one just overhead and another some 2 hundred yards away! I waved,and everyone on board waved back! And so I got some pictures and got to watch them land in the distance! A great way to get the day going out here in Tortosa! The dirt field is behind my house! Happy New Year! Blessings to all of you!

Tortosa

Tomorrow is New Years Eve! I thought I should show just what my subdivision looks like when you get to it! Tortosa is the name of the sub where I live, some call it Egypt because its so far from civilization (Mesa). And the sunset was quite nice this evening too! The bike in the picture is one of my three and the one I like to ride on the bike lane next to traffic. It has lights, etc..

Happy New Year! I will blog more next year! Thanks for the interest!!! You Rock!!

More Maricopa sunrise pics!

Some days the sky does an amazing job of getting me up in a hurry! My complex watch gets me up every morning at 6:15 if it is within earshot! I was messing with the functions soon after Gretchen had given it to me and I must have set it to go off and didn't realize it! So I am up before the sun this time of year and if I stay up I sometimes get treated to a fantastic sunrise, and here are a couple of the pics! I have to stand on top of my built in BBQ grill to get the shots over the block wall! Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and I will be going to Doug and Barb's place and to Church and dinner with them! I Wish You All a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

When I count my blessings I think of all the people I know and give thanks for having you as part of my life! Thanks!!! Love , Jon

The long and short of it.

Well, you have seen the long and now you see the short! In fact I think my hair was this short last in Jr.High! The job market is tough at this time, so desperate times require desperate measures! And with most job listings requiring an online application, and a High School diploma or G.E.D. then I guess its time for the later! I would be the oldest kid in high school if I chose the high school diploma!!!! I am prepared in my mind for the hunt and bagging of the goal, a job that will do the economic trip in support of my extravagant and meager lifestyle! By the way Happy Winter Solstice!!! Can you believe its only days until Christmas? Thank you for the cards! Its nice to get mail here in Maricopa! I still have not met very many people here! And people here are like everywhere else that I know, Busy!! May you all have a wonderful Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year! Who knows I might post one more before next year!! Peace Jon

More Total Coolness from Lower Antelope Canyon!

I took so many pictures of lower Antelope Canyon that I really wanted to share more of them! During our three hour photographer's pass we had at least three tours of other folks come through the canyon and each time the young Navajo guide lead them while playing guitar and singing several popular songs! The acoustics in the canyon were very good and his playing and singing wasn't bad either! It made an unforgettable experience even more so! I took several shots with a flash and all the multitude of colors turned into the color of sandstone in those pictures! All the purples and oranges and shades of many other colors vanished! So I shut off the flash and did without and the results were much more pleasing! The last photo has a girl in it that stopped so her boyfriend could get her picture and I was already set up so I took one with her in it just to show the size of the place in comparison! The place reminded me of an arrowhead with its napped divots in all the walls and faces of the canyon! Amazing what water and gravity and time can do! What God has set in motion, what man can stop?

Back Home in Maricopa.

Marshall flew home and is running an artist store in the mall in E. Wenatchee for the holiday season! I am at home starting to get my life together, looking for employment and trying to figure out how to get a glass studio put together! Having gone through a Thanksgiving without my family and having the Christmas season coming ever closer I have been more than a little bit lonely and in a deep funk that I wondered what would get me out of it! All this is new and foreign especially the being alone all the time! I so miss my family all the way down to the dogs I left behind that I have never cried so much in my life! I wonder for my future but am more concerned with my present! The past is gone the future has yet to be written and today is a gift, thus the word present for the time of now! If you are reading this then please pray for me! And if you wish prayer then let me know and I will be honored to pray for you too! In light, Jon

Las Vegas

Las Vegas is one of the few unnatural wonders of the modern world! The first picture is the lobby ceiling at the Bellagio, A Chihuly 7 million dollar work of art. Peace!