Last leg

Well, it's been a couple of busy days! And the logic of blogger escapes me ... the pictures above were supposed to be the last in the series, but I had to upload them in a separate batch, so they appear first. Oh, well.

Anyway, we've had a bunch of picture-taking fun. The reddish blooms and buds to the left  are on a cholla in Bill and Sherrie's yard ... the fleshy, almost translucent petals gleam in the morning light.

One of the exhibitors at the home art show made this lion of ... you name it ... phone cards, credit cards, old 3.5-inch discs, an amazing variety of odds and ends. Seems more complicated to me to assemble all that "stuff" and figure out how to put it together than to do straight drawing, potting, etc.

And Mexican folk art, in the form of strangely and brightly painted wooden figures, always brings a smile to my face. 

On the way toward Globe, there was this old Aermotor windmill, turning slowly in the breeze, still pumping water for cattle.

The globe mallow stalk was lying along the ground, instead of waving in the air as they usually are ... easier for the photographer to catch. ;-}

Skipping back to the top, the bright yellow fruits on another kind of cholla stood on the way down into the Salt River Canyon. (I think it's a cholla; I've realized that, if I'm gonna take cactus pics, I'd better find a copy of "What Kinda Cactus Izzat?")

And then there's the canyon itself ... a mini-Grand Canyon, smaller but still awesome. This is a section with serious whitewater, above the bridge, seen from the north rim of the canyon. By that time, we were happy to be climbing higher, approaching the forests of the White Mountain Apache Reservation and the cooler temperatures. Got into Snowflake in good time, able to enjoy the pool and a leisurely (and good) Mexican supper at La Cocina De Eva, in Snowflake and then download our pictures and relax.