Fall Colors

There is a little fall color in the salt cedar trees -- the yellow/orange color in front of the mountain.   This is the only fall color you see in the desert.  Even our first winter in New Mexico -- the only fall colors we saw were the same kind of salt cedar trees.  The only other fall colors we saw this year was in Utah up at 8000 feet of elevation.  We have a lot of mesquite trees and ironwood trees like this one in the picture in the Yuma area.  They are always green or shed their leaves and never turn any colors. 

Many people in the park are decorating their yards, palm trees and RVs so its starting to look like Christmas.  It took a few years but now I can get in the Christmas spirit looking at decorated palm trees instead of snow covered houses with Christmas lights.   I especially like walking around in the evening looking at all the lights while still wearing shorts.  

Yuma is very nice in the winter but it does have a few downsides.  The water out of the tap is too salty to drink so we have to buy drinking water and water for coffee.  They have water stations all over town where you can fill gallon jugs with reverse osmosis filtered water.  The cost is cheap .50 cents for 5 gallons.  Our park like most parks in Yuma have a water station right in the park for convenience which is nice.   The traffic will continue to get worse through the peak time of January and February when everyone who can comes down.  The stores will also have a hard time keeping the shelves stocked as demand increases so much they just can't keep up.  Oh well - its worth it for the weather.