day 1 – calm before the “storm”

The festival begins each day at noon but the bands get progressively better and more well-known as the day goes on so you decide who the first band is that you want to see and show up then.  The first band was going on at 3 so we left the house around 1.

Even given the late hour that most everyone went to bed (or felt like they went to bed), most folks were up by 8:30.  This then meant that we had time to kill before leaving.

Will and I went for a walk in search of a cache.  We only found one of the two we went in search of but I took some cool pictures along the way.
This is basically our view from the front of the house – desert straight up into mountains.

This one is a little further off but is gorgeously snow-capped.

 

 

 
Cacti!

Cache 1 found; cache 2 not so much.   I just really like these bushes.  They look like they have flowers but really it’s just the leaves of the bush.