BUYING TIME

Windy as all get-out here today, but the clouds are beautiful: puffy and white; huge and heavy with darkness; striated and shifting; every shape you can imagine. We stayed in mostly, but popped outside briefly to add water to our fresh water tank. We purchased a 6-gallon water container, to see if we can extend the time before we need to leave the site to get water. If we can "buy" even a day, that makes a difference when we're boondocking.

We don't see very many birds out here; they gravitate to the areas where water and foliage are more abundant (like the campground!). But this morning I saw one perched on a creosote bush right outside the Chinook, so I tried to snap a photo through the screen. It looks as if the bird is in snow, but that's just the white sand, the door screen diffusion, and the morning light.