To get to Tonto, you take Route 60 from Phoenix, up to Globe. That drive takes you over the Gonzalez pass. We’d done this trip before, but from the opposite direction, and it was at night, so we’d missed the scenery. The mountains are strikingly beautiful, but what’s even more striking is when you get […]
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The last time we were in Arizona, at the end of our rather epic journey along the Apache Trail, we passed the entrance to the Tonto National Monument. It was closed at the time, so while it mentioned cliff dwellings, we had to look it up later to see what it involved. Turns out, there
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The other cool thing about visiting the Desert Botanical Garden is that it turns out they were having a Chihuly glass exhibit. One of the things I really like about the garden is how structural the cactus are, so having the glass in amongst them was a really interesting contrast. We never did
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So it wouldn’t be a trip to the Phoenix area for us if we didn’t stop by the Desert Botanical Garden. And can I just say how nice it was to see some green? One thing we did differently this time was check out the succulent collection. I don’t know how we’ve managed not to
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Believe it or not, the Reid and Popham pictures are the same day. What a difference a front makes!
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These pictures are actually from a week ago Saturday, which was the kind of perfect Fall day that reminds me of why I live in Maine.
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My company outing was last week at Fort Williams. Naturally, it was the one rainy day in the otherwise gorgeous stretch of weather we’ve been having. But, I am from New England, so I even find stormy weather beautiful.
