Memorious as always, life goes on, warming unseasonably all the Memorial Monday;

A last laundry at Parker; a train heading west down the desert, late afternoon…

After the Weekend, south; Gerlach, Empire, Wadsworth, Fernley…Silver Springs and the bleak exurban landscape of 50 west – Bingo, Big Dong Used Cars, Discount Liquors, Guns, Ammo, Payday Loans and the brothels on the outskirts of Carson City, all for a washing machine at the Sears outlet, followed by south Reno’s unconscionable sprawl for provisions, supplies and Thai lunch…

The return; again Wadsworth,

Pyramid Lake,

Nixon…

making it back to Gerlach for no mail and home, the warming trend continuous and record-breaking.

Friday brought Mary and Judy with green tea KitKats in a Fit…

After they left Sunday the temperature reached 102, but plummeted thirty degrees when afternoon thunderheads brought spattering rain,

wind…

and dinner.

Next day climbed into the nineties again, but never as bad…

These two weeks we’ve also enjoyed nine young magpies, first observed lurching and fluffy among the upper pond’s willow thickets but, omnivorously migrating tree to tree, gaining confidence and tail feathers by the day, all the while becoming wiser in the ways of their world;

entertainment enough to the Easily Amused.

 

M