A visitor.....

 7:10 am - Tuesday - January 4th - Anza Borrego Desert, CA - 31° F (5° warmer than yesterday morning), 37% humidity, wind 3 mph out of the north by northwest.....partly cloudy today with a forecast high of 65° F.  On this date in 2016 we arrived at Rock House Road (Anza Borrego Desert) for our first time.....we were with Steven, Linda, Michael and Liz.....↴

Monday, just at dawn, it was 26° F....the coldest morning yet.  Thankfully, that will be the coldest it gets here before we leave in a little over a week.....

....we'll have one more low of 38° Tuesday night, and then it's all 40's from there, as well as 70's for the highs.

We received a text from our daughter, Meredith, Sunday afternoon asking if we would like her to come out and visit with us Monday afternoon to which we replied in the affirmative.  We suggested she arrive around noon so we could give her a tour of the metal sculptures in Galleta Meadows, and then have a late lunch at Jilbertos Taco Shop in Borrego Springs.  It is a good two and one half hour drive each way from where she lives, so she began her drive around 9:30 am, arriving around 12:10 pm after an uneventful drive.  Within minutes we were on our way to Galleta Meadows, and the large sand serpent, which is our favorite.....

Meredith checking out the sand serpent

.....I didn't take pictures of all the sculptures we visited, as I photographed them all a few years ago.......just after visiting this 'bird of prey' sculpture we saw an actual, living bird of prey on a post near the 'bird of prey' sculpture.....

Bird of prey sculpture

A living bird of prey

......I do not know what kind of hawk this is, but if you know, please drop me a comment.  

I neglected to takes pictures of our time at Jilbertos, but rest assured, the food was great as always.  We were back home by 2 pm, and after another hour of great conversation we bid Meredith adieu, sending her on her way home with many wishes for safe travel home.  It made us happy she was willing to drive over 5 hours round trip to spend a few hours with us.

We had planned to have another sunset fire, but after that big lunch I settled in for a long eventide nap, and then spent much of the evening reading before heading off to dreamland around 9:30 pm.  

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