Things Are Good in AZ!!!!

There have been so many uplifting blogs and people saying nice things about each other I couldn't help being motivated to share my contented thoughts!!

It's getting to be almost summer here and my first one in Arizona. I have lived in Southern California and Colorado for so many years I finally decided to get away from the big town noise and the small city freezing winters.

I really intended to live in Laughlin, Nevada but I picked up a small town newspaper at the hotel we were at when we visited Laughlin and it said that "Bullhead City, AZ was on of the most cheapest places to live". So I crossed the river and I looked around. It wasn't the nice looking look that Laughlin had, but sure enough, the prices were right.

The basic needs for one was also easily available so I just settled here. In short time I found a nice cheap apartment just made for a single irresponsible man like me. Things were rolling.

The winter was mild, kind of windy at times with "El Nino" kicking up some rain but it wasn't cold. I didn't have to put the heater on one time.

Spring sprang and it started getting warmer with lots of small rain showers. The beauty of just warmth and the clear skies made me start looking around at the fauna. The fauna coupled with the natural beauty of the Colorado River and the remnants of the formation of this valley also includes the widest array of rocks.

Now I know that rocks, by themselves, may not mean too much. But these rocks are different. They are round and smooth & rough and craggy as the water that rushed down to the Sea of Cortez tossed and turned them into what they look like now.

These rocks are very beautiful. They are full of color and details so wonderful I find myself just relaxing looking at them. THEN!!! Add the fauna I spoke about earlier and you have NATURE at it's best in the desert.

These plants are not the manicured non-native plants that can make a yard in Southern California look like a garden and a garden resembling what the plant architect intended. Nor are they farmland plants in Colorado. The sad point about Southern California faunas is you need tons and tons of water to keep them looking nice. Unfortunately after awhile that gets tiresome and they turn weedy and dead!

The plants here are actually the weeds sprouting as they have for centuries. These flowers, which I will refer to them as, have a flat plant base with spindly arms reaching upward. They're probably about 5 inches wide at the base and the arms are also maybe 5 inches high. And at the end of each arm are the blossoms.

These blossoms are rich red blossoms about 1/4" in size. They look like small roses. They are also bright yellow resembling daisy's or perhaps sunflowers! Then there are the pink ones and the white ones.

Yes, they are sparse but still just as beautiful. And in the dusk hours I sit in my patio chair and look at the bats as they swoop and turn abruptly picking mosquitos and flies out of space. You can call it "Meals on Wings"!!

There is so much more and then the finale. The enjoyment and contentment I have just being here makes me so happy. Yes, I miss my kids and G-kids but they are just a 4 hour drive away.

I wished you all were here and we could journey over to the Colorado River and enjoy a BBQ and some cold ones.

I am going to do a tribute "Robt787" closing. This blog is just for fun!! No offence intended!! To all of you --->