A Favorite Thing: Pink Sunsets

Our four day get-away to The River was perfect; great weather and enough time to relax.  The trip takes about 4 hours through familiar landmarks and I knew our timing was going to put us at our destination just before sunset.

Once we get out of the city, we pass by Palm Springs

and on to open spaces with no billboards,

and only the occasional offramp sign

Just before Palm Springs is an area called Whitewater.  

It's one of the windiest places in the country

 and its home to hundreds, if not thousands,

 of giant turbines that spin wind into electricity

It was a location considered by the Wright Bros. 

After that it's open highway for

a couple of hundred miles 

before our turnoff

As expected, we arrived at our camp just before sunset
and I snapped these from our porch

 The next afternoon, to his delight

 and the delight of 1000 mosquitos,

I went fishing with Pizza Man

The water was so still I couldn't resist taking pictures of the reflections

 this is where the fish hide

I didn't know until later that

these were decoys and duck season

had opened that day

 this was a muskrat cutting across the lake

not far from the boat just before

we "pulled up anchor"

Speaking of that, I'll save the rest

for another time

Counting My Blessings

xo Susy

p.s.   say "thank you" to a Veteran this weekend

I'm joining Claudia

 at Mockingbird Hill Cottage for

A Favorite Thing Saturday