Arizona’s governor considers golf courses, hiking trails and other venues with outdoor exercise options that allow social distancing to remain open. Our hiking group continues to gather in small groups, maintaining spacing on the trail and most selecting to wear masks or bandanas. Some consider that improper, but with proper caution, it seems to me that it is less risk than going grocery shopping.

Sure to brighten any dark day!

Those brittlebush plants are everywhere in our area so yellow predominates the landscapes right now.

Indeed, the Arizona desert is filled with magenta, violet, and yellow when the winter was “wet” and the warm spring days arrive.