November 21-23, 2025 Shoshone Caiifornia

 High of 66 and partly sunny.

Sunset last night aft er the end of the rain. We went to China Ranch Date Farm. To get to the date farm you go across barren desert, then down a dirt road in a narrow slot canyon, into a valley full of palm trees. Very dramatic and magical. 

 The palm trees Judy just had planted in her yard came from China Ranch date farm. She bought 9 palm trees, this says that each one produces 100-300 dates per year!! 

At China Ranch. Judy treated us to date shakes. mmmmm.

 Rock formations leaving China Ranch. Chalk butte east of town seen on my bike ride today. 

Sunset starting.  Sunset has this cool crepuscular ray going straight up. 

Sunset with the crepuscular ray goin up. 

Sunset south. Sunset north.

 Sunset east over beautiful down town Shoshone. More cool rays in the sunset. 

Sliver moon setting. I will have to try again with a tripod tomorrow so the moon won't be blurry. The power is out, so I took a few photos of the Milky Way. I could even see it with my naked eye, but not this well. 

The power is out, so I took a few photos of the Milky Way. This one has an airplane flying by.

This is the other end of the milky way. The lights from Vegas wash it out. 

November 18-19, 2025 Shoshone, California

 High of 56 and heavy rain. We have gotten 1 1/2 inches in the last two storms. That is a lot for here. There is some flooding.

Rain in the pass. Water by the gas station and general store. 

Flood downtown Shoshone. Water droplets in palo verde leaves, two shaggy main mushrooms and some red seed heads on a shrubbery. 

Wild looking cloud. The water is not even close to going over the road. Maybe when the water comes down from up north. 

The other side of the road. It does flood on this road. The sun coming out in the RV park. 

Rainbow over the RV park. Sunset on the sliver of the Nopah range that we can see from here. 

Sunset in the RV park.

More sunset and cool looking clouds. 

The phone is always taking photos of me when I am trying to shoot pictures . . . I received this pine needle Xmas ornament for my partner in the ornament exchange. It has broach in the middle. Really cute. 

I finished this basket today. It is made from dyed and natural pine needles, polyester thread, glass beads, a metallic raven and the center is a piece of slate that I sandblasted and painted the raven on. Sunset tonight reflected in rain puddles. 

November 14-17, 2025 Shoshone, California

 73, cloudy and light rain.

We moved the RV to the Shoshone RV park. Judy is getting 9 date palm trees planted in her yard. We had to move out of the construction zone. 5 of the trees. This backhoe was delivered this am. Judy and John went to Pahrump to pick up the trailer and delivered it to China Ranch Date Farm, where the trees came from.

First tree going in.

First tree. Digging the hole for the second tree. 

Third tree. These trees are very heavy, requires a lot of strong men to get them planted. 

Brian running the backhoe. This palm tree is monstrous. 

Putting the monster tree  in the ground. Tomorrow or Sunday they will come back and plant the last three.  It rained the whole next day. 

Sunset during an interlude in the rain. I finished the curtains for my sister's house. The top photo is the new curtains. You can see a palm tree outside the window now. The bottom part is one of the original ones I made her 20 years ago. In the bottom of the photo you can see the ironing board used while sewing. 

Cool clouds over the cemetery. There are 6 of the 9 new palm trees now in my sisters yard.

Last light on the Resting Spring range. How is this for a weird sunset?

Robbie had road base put down where we park with the bus. He said to water it and let it dry. It is supposed to rain tonight and tomorrow, so it may not dry out for a few days. We are still at the Shoshone RV which is fine since it is such a nice park. Lots of trees and grass and even a spring fed pool. The curtains for Judy's window have conchos along the top. Needed 14, but only had 10 from a couple smaller curtains I had made for her other house. I took all the conchos of them. Dug through Judy's sewing stuff and found 2 more. I had found 2 in my button box back in Fort Collins and brought them along, but I lost them in the bus. Last night I found them and put the last two on the curtains. Finally finished.  

Nice refection in a puddle left from the last rain storm. Some sunset weirdness. 

Sunset south and east from the RV park.