Night in Nogales. . . .

Coyotes howl in the dark
A dog barks on the hill
Voices. . .
I wonder
Who wanders in the cold
night rain?

Rain is falling all around, again

Lovely rainy day. Worked in the yard until I got rained in. We drove to Nogales for Taco Bell, came home and watched movies, made a screensaver with our 700 favorite photos, thought about making oatmeal cookies. . . manana.
Got to save some fun for the next day!

Blue Agave

They look so harmless. I felt like I was moving sharks. Sawing wasn't so bad. It was the picking them up to put in a pile that riled them up. I got bit numerous times!

Do these blue agaves seem just a little too BIG for the front of the house?? They get all the rain off the roof and they have prospered!! You can see that I have trimmed then at the bottom. That is just so some poor stranger like the Fed Ex guy can come to the door without being stabbed to DEATH!

I know they are beautiful. But I think they'll have to go.

The ugly little plant in the middle is a different agave which put up a gorgeous stalk this year. The stalk became our Christmas tree, but the plant had put it's whole heart into producing seeds and soon died.

I had to trim the agaves to try to remove the dead neighbor, but I think maybe all three will have to go. We'll see~