Play Ball!

Spending a sunny spring afternoon

in the Arizona desert

with

Scott...

my brother, Jack...and his wife, Sharon.

What fun!

The beer was icy cold, the sun was burning hot...

the company was terrific.

Add to that

the best hot dog I have had in a long time!

Yummy!

Cactus League spring training

really IS

all it is cracked up to be...

(sorry about the score, all you Sox fans out there.)

 

"A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz." 

~Humphrey Bogart



Some Cactus Zen...

 ...designed in mandala fashion...

just in time for the opening of professional baseball's

Cactus League spring training

here in the desert.

And above...she appears again...

this time

digitally flipped in celebration of the almost full moon

boldly lighting the desert night skies

with a bright cerulean glow.

Does that mean Spring is here???...

Well...just about!

Have a happy Saturday!

"That's the true harbinger of spring,

not crocuses

or swallows returning to Capistrano,

but the sound of a bat

on a ball."

~Bill Veeck, 1976