Spring Forward

Icy start:  28 F., and I had to scrape all the car windows

I had to groggily roll out of bed an hour earlier than usual because we had to set the clocks ahead by an hour before going to sleep due to the inane practice of trying to "save" daylight during "Daylight Savings Time."  We loved it when we lived in Arizona because there was no monkeying with time there.  Imagine our surprise after moving to El Paso, Texas when we discovered, on our very first venture into Ciudad Juarez, Mexico (directly across the border), that Juarez was on Central Time. 

Dropping down into the lower desert

Headed for a large arroyo

Entering the arroyo (aka "wash")

Tortugas (Tortoise) Mountain (left) and the Organ Mountains

Hedgehog Cactus

Really tall Torrey Yucca

Pencil Cholla (pronounced "choy-ya)

Ballooning over the City of the Crosses