So when I took Olivia, the little girl I babysit, to the aquarium in San Diego, I met this adorable little guy, a miniature border collie puppy…

I can’t believe that was only yesterday…

I was overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and La Jolla, that has some of the highest-end shopping anywhere in the world outside Paris…

Now I am sitting in my daughter and he fiance’s apartment, waiting for them to get home from work… a little groggy, because I woke up so early so I could take pictures of the sun coming up over the desert on my drive to Arizona… just for you…

Awwwww… Yup, dogs, babies and horses still love me!!!

And I’ll tell you… it was hot in San Diego… but nowhere near as hot as it is here in Scottsdale, Az. In fact, the nighttime low here is going to be almost as high as the the hottest part of the day back in San Diego.

I should have saved one photo of little Olivia for this last aquarium bit.

One thing I didn’t realize until it was too late is that, by getting those pictures of the sunrise from the top of the mountain range just inland of San Diego… (see my last post for the best ones)… I had to then spend the next few hours driving on a blade-straight highway staring right into the fiery furnace of hell hanging in front of me like some huge, hot anti-Christmas tree ornament.

Yes, I drove through a lot of different kinds of desert, but you have seen pictures of that from other trips… this one gives you a taste… of one little part…

Now I am in the land of the giant saguaro cacti… like that one right in front of my kid’s place.

But there are still palm trees… this is a confusing world… I will probably take a few hikes and drives, risking heat prostration… to show you some desert pictures… for the new people, you know…

I miss that crazy-big grouper fish… I swear, that thing was at least five feet long and must have weighed 900 pounds.

And now I miss my dog, Shiloh, dang it…