Some views around our community

We've seen some interesting sights around our community...

Beautiful sunset one evening

The home across the street from our park model has a Santa-hat decorations on the cactus in her yard!

One afternoon, we saw sun dogs on each side of the sun -- this one was to the right (north) side of the sun (you should be able to see a streak of red with lighter colors to the right of it)...

... and this one was to the left (south) side of the sun - again a streak of red toward the sun (I didn't take a picture with the sun in the frame).

We were surprised to see sun dogs as we understood that they are caused by ice crystals in the air and we thought that they would only be seen in cold climates.

Info from Wikepedia on sun dogs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog 

Sun dogs are commonly caused by the refraction and scattering of light from horizontally oriented plate-shaped hexagonal ice crystals either suspended in high and cold cirrus or cirrostratus clouds, or drifting in freezing moist air at low levels as diamond dust. The crystals act as prisms, bending the light rays passing through them with a minimum deflection of 22°. As the crystals gently float downwards with their large hexagonal faces almost horizontal, sunlight is refracted horizontally, and sun dogs are seen to the left and right of the Sun. Larger plates wobble more, and thus produce taller sun dogs.

Sun dogs are red-colored at the side nearest the Sun; farther out the colors grade through oranges to blue. The colors overlap considerably and are muted, never pure or saturated. The colors of the sun dog finally merge into the white of the parhelic circle (if the latter is visible).

I guess there can be ice crystals in the atmosphere even when the ground temperature is 70F+. 

Interesting things to see!