Tucson Autumn

Tucson has its seasons. Gone are the temperatures of the three digit days. It actually gets cool at night.

But for our swimming pool solar blanket, swimming would have become quick dipping some weeks ago. Yesterday, the last day of October, the cement pond was down to 81 degrees. Still great for me, but Shari has finally surrendered. This photo was taken two days earlier.

With cooler weather, Shari set up a painting area underneath the fan outside our bedroom. The breeze keeps the mozzies at bay and it still gets hot; in the eighties. Yes folks, we have the occasional lost but irritating mosquito. She is working to complete a painting of Baboquivari and the man in the maze.

Flowers still bloom, goldfish still swim, and the citrus tree which suffered from last winter's freeze has one fruit getting bigger, and several fertilized blossoms turning into teeny-tiny round green things.

But maybe the main reason for this entry is a great sunrise photo that Shari took a few mornings ago.

A neighbor and friend joined us for dinner a couple of nights back. She is much our senior in terms of time spent living in Tucson. She admitted that she never tires of seeing the mountains and the colors. Each time it's different.

Even though I've been here only a few years, I can relate.