January 27-31, 2020 Shoshone, California

Low 70's and sunny. I think we have found the perfect weather.

Still trying to get rid of the candied fruit we picked up at the fruit cake festival. I made double chocolate orange cookies. I made myself sick eating the cookie dough. Still have 6 and 1/2 containers left of the fruit. John may be right, maybe I should just start randomly sending them to people anonymously! Sunset tonight. 

Sunset tonight. The sliver new moon in the sunset tonight. 

I finished this one. 7 x 6 1/2 x 2 inches. The center is a piece of dichroic glass I fused, the beads are glass. I used purple, navy blue and wine dyed pine needles and stitched it with polyester thread. It is a beauty. Cool clouds this afternoon. 

Sunset tonight in Shoshone. Sunset in Tecopa.

Sunset in Tecopa tonight.  

And yet another sunset in Tecopa. The white salt covered hills are stunning in this light. 

Another great sunset tonight. I made more cookies. I used the candied orange and lemon rind in these. Plus chocolate chips and walnuts. I am using up the candied fruit that we picked up at the Fruit cake Festival. These are yummy.

And another sunset the next night. I climbed up and over the mountains to the west of here. I went mid day so the light was not that good for photos.

A small prospect. The top of this peak has an arch in it. It is at least twice as large, but I didn't feel like climbing back down where the better view of it was 

This cave is big enough for me to sit in the back of it. Of course there is a pack rat nest back here. Lots of caves in this rock. A couple arches seen today. Lots of arches in this rock too. 

View near the top. Looking up at the ridge line with the moon. The rock is razor sharp lava rock. Great gription for hiking. 

I am headed down into that valley. Sunset was nice tonight again. 

I put some henna on my hair today to condition it. It looked like green mud when I put it on my hair, the left part is when I had rinsed most of it out. Dry my hair is now thicker, shinier and softer, and light blond. The color will wash out in a couple of washes, but I hope the nice thick, soft and shiny stays longer.  I started a new basket, this center is one of the jewels I made this last summer.