Sunday, March 22, 2009

ARIZONA LANDSCAPE

I love going somewhere that has a completely different landscape than I'm used to. And boy is Arizona different! They dont have to shovel in the winter, or mow in the summer for one thing!



This is the view from Brelynne's window. Her & Brandon got me up one morning so I could see what the sunrise looked like on the mountains. I am so glad they did!



Suz & Brian have 3 windows in their foyer overlooking the mountains. I thought it was pretty cool that it looked like a triptych.



It really was beautiful, this was on our hike in the White Tank Mountains. It looked like an overgrown golf course.



This is also on our hike. If you look real close you can see the petroglyphs on the rock.









If you squeeze between these rocks, there is a waterfall back there. It was also about 20 degrees cooler here, than on the rest of the hike.

We counted 13 of these little lizards on our walk...it was a record! The most they had seen before was 5 of them.

Vistor center on the left.

One HUGE saguaro!!






Ok...you dont see THIS every day!! At least not in Ohio! I made Suzanne turn around & go back here. I couldn't believe they sold cactus for your yard!



But of course they do!! Just like you can buy a pine tree here...you can get a cactus there!


Yep...its says 88 degrees in the rearview mirror! I was thrilled, but the Arizonians weren't happy that they had high 80's temperatures in February already!

1 comment:

Suz... said...

yah! I love these pictures!
It has been in the low 90s but is cooling down to high 70s/low 80s for this entire next week...yahoo!!! :)