A few friends see fascinating things in the cloud formations.  Do you imagine anything interesting when you zoom in? 

At this very moment,  I am high up in the Big Horn Mountains in a very heavy rain with a dash of hail storm.  

It’s already 6pm and time for me to stay put for the night. Even though this is black bear country, I will sleep in the car tonight rather than negotiate the slick mud roads between here and the paved highway far below where I am now parked.    Oddly, this is the safer of two options I am aware I have right now.  What a blessing to have -and know I have – choices.  

5 minutes later ..

And choices necessarily change sometimes!  Once the rain subsided, I read the posted signs .. 

So, guess what?  I am now elsewhere for tonight.  At a scenic overlook where the only sign posted prohibits leaving rubbish.  (Very do-able!) 

Happily, from here I think I will have another, and different, view of night #2 of the SuperMoon tonight.  

Last night I ‘camped’ almost opposite to where I now sit, by about a 50-mile drive. 

I watched while electrical storms lit up the Big Horn Mountain range and the Stag Full Moon – 1 of 4 super moons in 2022 – rose on the horizon.  A few photos from 9:30pm-ish 13 July to 5:30am-ish 14 July. 

Visited a good friend from my Women’s Center days at her home today.  She was one of our best volunteers and became the 3rd Director of the Centre which was renamed Advocacy & Resource Centre (ARC) not long after 1985 when I left to live overseas.

She was the second-buyer of the house my then soon-to-be-husband renovated from a ‘condemned’ to ‘sellable’ status.

 It was fun to walk in it with her this afternoon and see how lovely and different it is with her and her family’s care, stylish decor & artistic touches. 

I will visit ARC next week and am excited to meet the new Director and hear what the Centre is doing these days.  From 1979, when I started it until now, it has addressed needs that had, for a very long time, gone unrecognised in this community.  

Sheridan grew from around 25,000 residents when I lived here to 31,283 now with a growth rate of 0.86% in the past year.  

That translates, as far as I can see and am experiencing, into lots of people and waaaaay too much traffic; and many large tracts of decidedly ugly homes built very close together in what were fields of hay and grass not long ago.

This I have witnessed all the way from very-southern Colorado to here in NE Wyoming.  The water resources to serve the more southern communities are aquifers!  Those will only fill up again after an epic Great Flood (the likes of which Noah is said to have navigated) and perhaps another Ice Age melt.  Very strange.   Very, very strange.. and ugly. 

Now for beauty ..

Tonight’s last light .. until the moon rises ..