Tucson, AZ - Misc

Sometimes we see things that are intriguing but don’t seem to fit in anywhere. Here’s a blog with some pictures that I saw intriguing enough to shoot with my camera but that fit in nowhere else.

While we were at Biosphere 2 we were walking out and happened to see this wooden thing with holes in it nailed to a tree. Puzzled we walked over and saw this explanation.

Of course we didn’t want to get to close to it so I used my telephoto lens.

On another jaunt, we had left Pinnacle Peak Restaurant after a disappointing dinner and walked through their Western set where they have shows at night. I told Gary to take my picture in the jail and all of a sudden a sheriff showed up and locked it. I’m in trouble. Must be because I tell bad jokes.

We saw this truck at the trailhead for one of our hikes. Must be drones. What are they looking for here? Saguaros? Hikers off the trails? But, we’ve often thought it might be fun to buy a drone to get a bird’s eye view of our hikes, our campgrounds and maybe our RV. But, we use Google a lot to see all of this. It’s amazing that you can even plot out a hike using Google - it’s that detailed.

We were impressed with this little family of baby cacti. Clinging to the stone cracks.

It’s hard to miss the Catalina Mts which loom over Tucson. Imagine, waking up every morning to this splendid scene.

Wherever we land in our motorhome, we walk a lot around surrounding neighborhoods for variety and to see some of the homes and meet some of the people who live around here. Here’s an elaborate memorial to a local resident who had died in 2010.

And, then there was the haircut. ‘Just a little trim’, I said.

‘Cut it all off’, she heard. An awful picture and thus I’ll leave it really small.

Saw some disheartening pictures of Lake Powell where the Colorado is dammed up by Glen Canyon Dam. Here’s a picture from a while back when the lake was much fuller than it is now.

Here’s a current picture, after a drought. Note the difference.

Part of it have almost disappeared and new islands have appeared. We hope that the rains and snows of 2017 have not just ended the drought in California but also the shrinking of the Colorado.

And, finally this comment on living in Tucson from Mary Commorford, who moved here from Wisconsin in the 80’s and now volunteers at the Visitor Center. We asked her if why she liked living in Arizona. She smiled and said:

‘I never had to shovel heat.’