Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas

Oak limbs bud leaves grow
Las Vegas temperatures rise
A neighbor’s dog barks

For the past week, I have watched the oak tree in the yard across the street. Last Sunday, the limbs were pastel green with small buds and every day the leaves grew. It will take another week or so for the leaves to hide the bare limbs, but the leaves get bigger every day.

Today temperatures were in the mid seventies. I did not watch the local weather report today, but it felt like seventy-four or seventy-five degrees when I went outside. There was no wind or clouds today, it was a nice day in Las Vegas.