Arizona Memories

I was thinking about and missing living in Tucson, AZ recently (and feeling that familiar, old saudade again). So I looked through some old photos and decided to share a couple. (I'm pretty sure I haven't shared either of these two before.)

These were both taken in the wintertime. I think they were on different days, yet both days happened to both be unusually cloudy (or partly so); Tucson has, probably, close to 300 days of sunshine per year. 

These were taken in either late January or early February 2000, when I'd gone out to explore the beautiful scenery in the relative "coolness" of winter.

I love the saguaro cactus "sentries" in the first photo.

Saguaro National Park, western

Near Sabino Canyon

So truly an "Under the Desert Sky" post today.

Reminiscing a Bit More

While I'm still on break, I've been working on a photo project. So, in looking through a bunch of my old photos, I found a few cool ones from Arizona and New Mexico I thought I'd share.

I'm at the Saguaro National Park in Tucson, circa late summer 2000. I would've gotten a little closer to a saguaro, if I hadn't been worried about an encounter with a rattlesnake off the main trail.

Do you see the javelina right in the middle? I saw it at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, circa late summer 2000. Can you believe how close it is?

This was a storm rolling in, as seen from our back yard in Alamogordo, NM, circa early spring 2007. Lots of thunder and lightning, but not as much rain as I'd expected.

And this one of White Sands outside of Alamogordo - yes, I've posted this one before, but I'm posting it again today in honor of New Mexico's 100th birthday!

A Few Lost "Treasures" from the Southwest

I was looking through some photos (looking for one or two in particular) and I came across these three photos that I'd completely forgotten about.

These first two were from when I lived in Tucson, AZ (2000-2002).

I was out and about somewhere, and realized I probably didn't have enough any saguaro photos.

I always thought that orange plant looked cool. Not sure what it's called, by the way.

 This was at Seven Falls (after we'd gotten some good rain) - this was a nice day hike I liked taking every so often. I think I took this photo when Andrew and I hiked there, once.

(I think I've posted this photo before . . . but it's been a while since I've looked at it, and it's cool, so I'm posting it again!)

This was Liv's first Christmas (in New Mexico). I always thought her "bed head" was funny when she was a baby - it always got all spiked up like that in the back.