I love to see the these giants of the desert when we visit Arizona. I saw one of these with the crest at the top once and was so sad I didn't have my camera. I know they are very rare.
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam