We’re back in the land of the Saguaro Cactii. Tonight, we’re near Phoenix, AZ. After we set up camp, I walked around the RV Park taking pictures of some of the plants and birds. I liked this one that I snapped just as the sun was directly behind. Click to enlarge.
We’re looking forward to a couple of vacations in 2010 and have started planning them. One thing we like to do is pull up some of the photos we took during previous outings. I was looking through the Summer ’08 files when I found this nice rainbow road picture taken near Canyonlands National Park in Utah. Click on the image to enlarge.
The photo behind the greeting is the one I took last winter at the Grand Canyon. Click to enlarge. If you would like to see the photo without the lettering, go to Winter Canyon from Lookout Studio.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
I took this photo of my husband walking the dog in the snow last December at the KOA campground in Flagstaff, AZ. We were on our way to the Grand Canyon and camped here overnight. When we arrived the evening before, snow was falling; it continued overnight to add to the winter scenery. Click on the cropped image above to see the full-sized snowscape.
Damsel and I have been talking about a possible winter vacation. We enjoyed the last one we took when we visited the Grand Canyon and other interesting places in Arizona and California. We had the cold weather, but we didn’t seem to mind it. We kept warm and cozy and dressed for the weather.
We would like to go again, but don’t know exactly when and where. Just thinking about all the possibilities has given me terrible wanderlust. So many places would be suitable, but we can’t go everywhere.
Decisions, decisions.
Hopefully, we can see some scenery like in this photo Damsel took last winter while we were on the road from Flagstaff to Grand Canyon. The Canyon had four straight days of snow and drifts up to several feet high. There were icicles on the eaves of all the buildings and wherever they could form on the red rocks and in the trees. It was like living in a Christmas card.
It must have been that Global Warming that makes it cold some places. 😉
Back in the summer of 2008, Damsel and I went on vacation to Southern Utah and Northern Arizona. We visited several of the National Parks, including Bryce Canyon NP. At Bryce, the weather was nice, but a bit cloudy and overcast at times. Regardless of the weather, we enjoyed our stay at Bryce very much.
We were gawking and taking pictures of the canyon and all the colorful hoodoos that make this place so spectacular, when we encountered a nice gentleman who told us he had come here from Scotland. I asked him if they had anything like this in his home country.
Now, for his answer you have to imagine his voice, which I thought sounded a lot like Sean Connery in his role in the 1999 movie “Entrapment” as Scottish master thief Robert MacDougal :
“Aye,” he replied, “that we do. Almost every day, we have clouds.”
I wish I had taken a picture of his wide grin as he spoke.
Click on Damsel’s image of Bryce Canyon to enlarge.
This is the view of Dockweiler State Beach near Los Angeles International Airport. We were returning from a dental appointment on Friday and took this scenic route home. Click on the image to enlarge.
