whose soaked earth [though it didn’t much look that way] made, as we’d been warned,

for muddy meanderings on our first mostly cloudy day.

The next one brought some sun, warmed the house,

charged the batteries and

allowed breakfast on the porch but

by afternoon, the ground too greasy,

we stayed to the the road as far as the boundary ditch

and back.

StuporBowl morning was chill enough to render the greasy sufficiently tacky

for walking though sunshine

made later off road wanderings iffy…not that we didn’t find the chairs to sit, sorely in my case,

and so unto another evening.

This was followed by [as usual] another morning, cast over brightly,

and, late that day, a walk to Parker Reservoir, disturbing two ducks [not shown], as

the overcast,

persisting into Tuesday,

grew ever darker

with an Ominousness coming up from the southwest which, along with

approaching burros and discouraging weather reports convinced us to cut short our stay

by a day, making for a shortish visit…but there it was.