Imperial Sand Dunes Recreaction Area - Southern California
Thousands of Dune Buggies zipping all over the place like...bugs
Colorado River near Blythe, Ca
Wonderful life-giving water
Bureau of Land Management land camp site just over the border from Ca into Az
Our closest neighbor ...way in the distance
Fluffy white clouds
Our nearest neighbor - little desert lizard
Looking East from our camper
Quartz Heaven!!
Our nameless Guardian Angel (I called her The Lady in The Stones)
My Desert Quartz Labyrinth
Does it matter what time it is anyway? Yes, of course it does.......sometimes. Dentist appointments, etc., you need to be on time.....so you can wait! We have been back and forth over the border from Arizona to California, then back to Arizona again, (I think) but my phone keeps bouncing back and forth between Mountain Time and Pacific Time even when we are not moving!! Thankfully, for us, at this point in our lives we do not have to be anywhere at any set time so it is a moot point. But because I have been used to working and needing to punch a timeclock it becomes habit to always "know" what time it is. It is getting a bit easier to let go of that need to know as I get into this retirement. It is time to be thankful and grateful for the sunshine, for the water that we take for granted, for our friends, family, our animal companions, and most of all for our health. It is time to get as healthy as we possibly can so we can get outside and appreciate the beauty that Nature has to show us.
We left California to come back to the Bureau of Land Management land for boondocking opportunities in the Quartzsite, AZ area. In doing so, we crossed the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation area. It was the strangest sight for me to see mountains and desert and suddenly in the near distance see nothing but a mountain of sand for miles and miles. As we entered the sand dunes all we could see zipping all over the place were hundreds and hundreds of dune buggies and other off road vehicles used to play in the sand! I suppose that going to play in the dunes would be like us in the UP going snow mobiling only a heck of a lot warmer!
We pulled into this campsite on Sunday after leaving Blythe, California near the Colorado River. There are hundreds of campers here but because of the vast amount of land available to camp on you can find a spot with or without a view of others. As we drove into this spot we saw a little grotto or memorial. As you can see in the photo there is an angel in front of a green cross. All around the ground are quartz rocks. I am guessing that with each new camper to this spot a new rock gets placed along the border of the memorial. I don't know if a camper's pet died and was buried there or if someone just thought it was a good thing to do. We have added more then a couple big pieces of Quartz to The Lady in the Stones.
There are literally tons of quartz scattered throughout the hills and washes all around this area. As I took my daily walk today I came upon an area that looked like someone had dumped a truck load of quartz in one spot. I couldn't let all that beautiful stone just sit there so I gave it all a shape - a Labyrinth!
What time is it now? Dinner time!!!!
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