We took a drive today to visit the Shrine of St Joseph of the Mountains in nearby Yarnell, AZ. There is a Koi pond in the shrine where these pretty water lilies were in bloom today. Click on the image to enlarge.
Travel
Goodbye Arizona (For a Short While)
Tonight, we’re back in Stormy Southern California to attend to some business and appointments here this week. As we were leaving the Arizona Outback headed for Interstate 10, I took this photo of three saguaros on a hillside with some early spring wildflowers in the foreground. Click on the image to enlarge.
Driving Through a Saguaro Forest
Our route to Cave Creek, Arizona, takes us along state route 74, a scenic highway from US 60 to Lake Pleasant. The first twenty miles, or so, along route 74 takes you through a very scenic area consisting of many varieties of desert vegetation dominated mostly by the saguaro cactus.
Damsel took all of the images used for this. You can pause the slideshow by rolling your mouse over the picture and resume by rolling out.
Green Machines or Mean Machines?
Nothing like a little graphic evidence to show where the popular spot is in the Ford exhibit at the 2011 Detroit Auto Show. The media proclaimed the show was all about saving the planet with electric and gas-efficient vehicles to be the show’s main theme. You can see for yourself how the attendees voted with their feet. Top: Ford Trucks and SUV exhibit – bottom: Ford green vehicles exhibit.
Hat tip: Henry Payne of Planet Gore on “Auto Show Deep Freeze: Green Gets the Cold Shoulder“.
Winter Cruise Flashback
Two years ago at Christmastime we drove from Wickenburg to Flagstaff and then up to the south rim of the Grand Canyon. I took this photo from the rim at Grand Canyon Village looking northeast. Click on the image to enlarge.
Allen Street in Old Tombstone
We were camped in an RV park in Tombstone, Arizona in October of last year for part of the “Heldorado Days” celebration. We were window shopping on Allen Street near the location where Wyatt, Morgan and Virgil Earp along with Doc Holliday shot it out with Frank McLaury, Tom McLaury, Billy Claiborne, Ike Clanton, and Billy Clanton. Damsel took this picture of a stagecoach going west toward the OK Corral at the left. Click on the image to enlarge.