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Wupatki and Sunset Crater NM, near Flagstaff, AZ

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The Raven and Wupatki Pueblo
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Box Canyon Pueblo in early morning light — Wupatki NM.
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Box Canyon Pueblo was fun to explore — amazing architecture!
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Lamar Pueblo was just down the road in Wupatki NM
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Detail of Lamar Pueblo. Imagine living here!
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Is that incredible!!! So much more picturesque with the snow on that black volcanic rock!
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Standing in front of the lava field with a very interesting old tree.
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Beautiful.
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Around Sedona, AZ

 

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Montezuma Castle NM
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Hey – my man Teddy was hanging out at the Montezuma Castle visitor center. We had a chat…
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Tuzigoot NM
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Incredible panorama near Sedona with a dusting of snow to highlight the red rocks.

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Organ Pipe National Monument, AZ

 

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Sunrise with moon and Venus
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What a way to start the day!
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This is our home – weather is predicting some rain storms so we snagged this site with the Ramada.
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Reflections from the overnight rain.
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Really fun to experience the morning changes.
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On the hiking trail to Lost Cabin — found but lost agian.
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See how these Chollas jump!
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Old wheel near the Victoria Mine
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There is a bull on the rock face behind us – a nice steep climb to this point.
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But it is worth it for the views towards Mexico!
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Awesome to be able to just relax and enjoy the day.
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This is the view from near the Rancher’s Line Camp.
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And looking the other direction is The Border…and The Fence.
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Look how it runs as far as the eye can see straight up the distant hill.
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The old Wangler’s Line Camp building.
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Let’s ‘off road’ Motor — with amphibious Mini!
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Another incredible sunset in the Arizona desert.

 

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Catalina State Park

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We headed to Catalina for the First Saturday Music in the Park series. We got there early enough to enjoy a hike.
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The 50-Year Trail goes along a ridge with lots of great views.
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The saguaros here seem to have more arms than other areas – are they older or a different variety?
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Warm today – well down right hot with no shade! We had short sleeve on under the sun shirts.
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Very picturesque down by the river. We enjoyed an hour or so of the concert with some fresh popcorn and the incredible mountain views! The drive home was an ever changing variety of colors of sunset to twilight. Very peaceful.

We were here last December for a concert in the park also. That blog posting is http://tealsky.com/2014/12/06/catalina-state-park/

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Tumacacori National Historic Site and Anza Trail

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The Mission is on the Juan Batista de Anza National Historic Trail – we had visited here last year but did not hike any of the trail. This year after our trip to Tubac and hiking some of the trail there, we focused on this part of the history.
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Such a beautiful detail against a pure blue sky.
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The Anza trail is between here and the mountains. It enters the USA just south of here around Nogales and goes all the way to San Francisco as he set up the Mission there. There is an Anza Borrega State Park South of Pam Springs we visited.
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Another view with an interesting sky against the Tumacacori mountains.
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I did not know the origins of the name Arizona! The good oak tree is hard to find.
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Here is the section of the Anza trail behind the Mission’s orchard.
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A large flood plain as the river changes depending on the water flow.
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We chose this spot to have our picnic lunch. The water is moving quite rapidly and we watched the sandy bottom shift its ripples.
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These riparian ways are really known for their birding opportunities. We hear a lot of different songs but they are hard to capture with our camera – however this lovely one kept us company during our rest. A huge flock of raven circled overhead making quite a racket – wonder what all that was about!

Here is the blog posting from our visit last year

http://tealsky.com/2014/12/29/tumacacori-national-historic-site/

and from Anza Borrega State Park http://tealsky.com/2011/01/20/anza-borrego/

 

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White Sands, New Mexico

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Gorgeous Panorama of beautiful White Sands National Monument.
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The undulating and shadowing was very picturesque.
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We hiked 6-miles or so and enjoyed the rippling pattern on the dunes.
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An Angle of Repose…
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So sculptural! This reminded us of a Henry Moore Reclining Figure.
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A Minion has landed. Always on the lookout for UFO’s in NM – ha!
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From one Minion to Another: Thinking of my great nephew and wishing him a very Happy Birthday!
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More Aliens on the horizon.
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A full criminal back ground check allowed us access to the White Sand Missle Range museum – can you see our campsite in the distant mountains?
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Can you just catapult this into the air? They also had a V2 rocket inside of a building with explanations – building on some of the knowledge we gained in Los Alamos.
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A gorgeous sky. It was fun to photograph the Final Frontier.