Pictures without pictures
I am working on the hotel computer tonight since this incredibly (not) up to date hotel does NOT have wireless! I spent the weekend at mom's...though this is another story, bottom line is - she not only does not have wireless...she has DIAL-UP!!
So...wow. That is the one thing about Phoenix and hanging out near a lot of (really) retired people at once (Bill and Pat - sorry, you don't count. I mean RETIRED!). It certainly makes me feel like I am from the East coast, and how busy and rushed our lives are. Always good for a perspective check. But still, I feel like a fish in a different sea!
But, the landscape is amazing. My mom lives in the mountains outside of Phoenix. I had only been once before, back when we moved her in.
That day had separate stories of its own, and didn't prompt me to return in any quick manner. Not to mention, at that time I was in a job two stories ago, that somehow brought me out this way more often. This is a rare occasion that I wasn't able to pass up!
So, watching the sun rise and set in a land so flat, yet so full of amazing mountains and landscape is refreshing. It would be more "refreshing" if it weren't for the searing heat. Literally, I could cook a steak on the sidewalk, no problem. I think it was 107 degrees when I landed. Yes, it's a DRY heat...but it's still HOT!! whew. Melting is a good word. I have been here when it was 113 degrees, but I was thinner (makes a big difference!), younger (also makes a big difference!) and it was June (huge difference!). Fortunately, mom and I went to do a little siteseeing at Roosevelt lake near her home, and it kicked up a great wind and some thunderstorms off in the difference. The temp dropped 30-some degrees. That was more like it! But it was temporary, and soon we were back to hOT heat!
A quick weekend and I was back to work early this morning. It's been a full day. I just thought I would stop and say hi - and leave you with this.
Mountains, rising in the near and far...red, brown, sprinked with saguaro cactus and yucca plants. The occasional oasis - man-made or natural - sprinkling the landscape with a refreshing bit of cool. The sky - endless blue - literally - that deep blue we only occasionally experience in Ohio. And the sun. The beautiful star itself - round and great and mighty - in charge of all color and shadows, big, bold and amazing.
There is your picture...of Phoenix and everywhere I have been today! Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Tempe. Tomorrow is another sun-filled adventure.
For now, it has cooled down to 98 degrees. !!!!
So...wow. That is the one thing about Phoenix and hanging out near a lot of (really) retired people at once (Bill and Pat - sorry, you don't count. I mean RETIRED!). It certainly makes me feel like I am from the East coast, and how busy and rushed our lives are. Always good for a perspective check. But still, I feel like a fish in a different sea!
But, the landscape is amazing. My mom lives in the mountains outside of Phoenix. I had only been once before, back when we moved her in.
That day had separate stories of its own, and didn't prompt me to return in any quick manner. Not to mention, at that time I was in a job two stories ago, that somehow brought me out this way more often. This is a rare occasion that I wasn't able to pass up!
So, watching the sun rise and set in a land so flat, yet so full of amazing mountains and landscape is refreshing. It would be more "refreshing" if it weren't for the searing heat. Literally, I could cook a steak on the sidewalk, no problem. I think it was 107 degrees when I landed. Yes, it's a DRY heat...but it's still HOT!! whew. Melting is a good word. I have been here when it was 113 degrees, but I was thinner (makes a big difference!), younger (also makes a big difference!) and it was June (huge difference!). Fortunately, mom and I went to do a little siteseeing at Roosevelt lake near her home, and it kicked up a great wind and some thunderstorms off in the difference. The temp dropped 30-some degrees. That was more like it! But it was temporary, and soon we were back to hOT heat!
A quick weekend and I was back to work early this morning. It's been a full day. I just thought I would stop and say hi - and leave you with this.
Mountains, rising in the near and far...red, brown, sprinked with saguaro cactus and yucca plants. The occasional oasis - man-made or natural - sprinkling the landscape with a refreshing bit of cool. The sky - endless blue - literally - that deep blue we only occasionally experience in Ohio. And the sun. The beautiful star itself - round and great and mighty - in charge of all color and shadows, big, bold and amazing.
There is your picture...of Phoenix and everywhere I have been today! Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Tempe. Tomorrow is another sun-filled adventure.
For now, it has cooled down to 98 degrees. !!!!
posted by Gluten Free Gourmet at 12:52 AM
1 Comments:
I'm getting the picture!! I can als picture some of this because I used to love looking through my Gma's "Arizona Highways" magazines. Beautiful place!
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