Attack of the Skeleton Weeds!

We had approximately a foot and a half of snow over the weekend and temperatures down to 8 degrees, but the warm winds yesterday made short work of it and today was a beautiful calm day with temperatures back into the 60's. By the way this painting is called "The Pot of Gold" of a rainbow trout, acrylic on beveled board coated with acrylic resin to give it that wet looking effect. Hope you enjoy it.

Sunshine was the order of the day today with some clouds as the afternoon began so I took the doggies for 3 miles of walkies to just north of the Squaw Leg area of Bear Mountain. It was a very warm walk even with just a sweatshirt. Dog kids enjoyed salad bar, i.e. grazing on the green winter wheat grass growing along the wayside. By the time we turned back home the weather was changing and some little showers were building up. Saw a beautiful rainbow this one was in the clouds, the forever signet of the God of Israel's covenant not to destroy the earth by flood ever again, and then the winds picked up just enough to blow the tumbleweeds once more. Most of them were dead skeleton weeds, in summer these nifty looking weeds are nothing but green stems with no leaves, and they were headed straight at us as if on the attack as we walked back into the teeth of the north wind. We made a game of dodging them as they hurtled at us. Thus today was attack of the Skeleton Weeds. Apropos for October don't you think?

The wind was cool and we got some sleet and rain on us. It felt great after the heat of the first part of the walk. By the time we got home we felt refreshed. Everywhere I have lived the saying has been "In (fill in the state) just wait 10 minutes and the weather will change". Wyoming is the only state where I have really found it to be true.

Below is a picture of one of the skeleton weeds that attacked us. oooOOOoooooOOOOOooo!