In a Word…Idyllic

I have lived in the Desert Southwest for the last 30 years of my life, and I love it there. I expect that I’ll return — perhaps not to Phoenix proper, but certainly to Arizona. There are several adjectives that can describe the Southwest’s landscape — “rugged”, “breathtaking” (especially when applied to our monsoon skies/sunsets), and “expansive” are three that come to mind.

A word I would probably NOT select to describe my Southwest desert is “idyllic”, defined by Webster as “pleasing or picturesque in natural simplicity”.  The desert is a lot of wonderful things, but “idyllic” just doesn’t seem fitting.

We stumbled upon “idyllic” this past weekend — at Winchester State Park in Winchester, Idaho.

Spending a couple days at this quiet, slice-of-a-simpler–time location was a delight.

However, in our own campsite, the non-stop silly dog goofiness continued.

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