So it was a sunny day, and I had gone to see a display of donated and decorated Christmas trees . This was for a charity, one buys tickets for the Christmas tree one wishes to win, and the money raised goes to a children’s charity. The trees are fully decorated and have presents under them and gift cards on them, but what I really wanted was the armadillo ornament on one of the trees.

And then as I was near the mountains it was onward to the overlook to admire the scenery with the tourists. They were freezing and I was wearing shorts.

On the other side of the road, there was a group of men dressed in identical camouflage hoodies with high powered binoculars and cameras looking at bighorn sheep that were on the mountain. Why bother, when there was this beautiful cement buffalo right here (and it’s not moving around).

So this was the view to the south, with the “secret” military base hidden inside the mountain (the Air Force does a broadcast from here every Christmas Eve that tracks “Santa” as he presumably flies over the country).

And as you look further to the north, why it’s a city park.

And a bit further is the classic postcard view of the city.

Yes, that armadillo was preying on my mind and I did not win the decorated tree, so I asked Mr. Google where this came from. Hooray, it was locally available and now I have one to call my very own.