I'm no stranger to tow trucks. When you drive for a living you see more of them than anyone needs to. My cousin started out on her move from Reno to here this morning and didn't make it a hundred miles before her U-Haul truck broke down and is now being towed back to Reno.

Nothing lasts like it used to. Maybe I just don't remember stuff breaking like it does all the time now. Back in the '60's you could buy a '47 Ford pickup truck for a hundred bucks, drive it for a year or two and sell it for the same amount. Now you can't even get a new truck to make a hundred miles.

My sister and her husband just did a similar thing with their truck. Dead on the side of the highway in Oregon. A relatively new Chevy truck with the big diesel engine pulling a little 31' fifth wheel RV. They ended up on the tow truck down to the nearest RV campground then off went the truck to the shop. Stuff just doesn't last like it used to.

This is what I do for a living.

I think of it as a corner office with a view. My wife died at the end of June this year and I'll be going back to work in the next 2-3 weeks or so. It will be tough going back but I still have bills to pay. It does serve up a good landscape shot once in a while though so that makes it worthwhile.

Since David said I might post a photo of the southwest I may as well do so. This is almost in my backyard.

It rained here a couple of days ago. In the desert that's a big deal. It brings out all the people to watch it come down. We get maybe 8 inches a year and got one of them in an hour during this storm.

I stayed away from all the people and just made a photo or four.