Landing in St. Louis....

We drove to St. Louis last night to catch our plane to Tucson this morning. I'm looking out our motel window watching landings :-) Canada "airlines" coming down
Sliding to a stop
All alone. There are 11 geese out there at the moment.

Bathing

View from our room

Swimming.

We fly out around noon and get to Tucson around 5 their time.

My posting schedule may be strange this week.

SkyWatch Friday......

These are from Wednesday and the sky was changing a lot that day! The country skies at home.....
......the shopping center skies in town!

That is my SkyWatch for today!
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(A little vacation dreaming and memories below as I wing my way to Tucson!)

Tucson dreaming.....

Since I'll be busy most of the day packing, I dug into the archives.

This will be my view every morning next week! My sister's front windows look right out at the Catalina foothills. Lovely view! I love to sit there with my tea and watch the sun rise or the Gila woodpeckers sitting on the cacti.

I don't usually post older stuff, but most of these are places we went other years while in the Tucson area and things that I won't see this year.

Tombstone, Arizona cemetery.....a fun place to read the tombstones

Gunfight at the OK Corral......many of our photos from that year were before we were totally digital and aren't on the computer.

Mike always tries to go to some spring training games if it's the right time of year.
Last Friday Mike posted photos from the Titan missile site if that interests you.....pretty neat and scary at the same time. http://www.andthingsthatgo.blogspot.com/

This was last year....the infamous rattler's that I almost stepped on and thankfully they were too occupied to notice me! That is one that I definitely don't want to repeat this year!!

One of the many cholla cacti......I'm sure I will take lots of new photos of these! Maybe I can practice my macro shots on all the cacti.

Beads at the Gem and Mineral show. This is just one booth out of 100's.

This silver deer statue was in the Sedona area. I thought it was beautiful!

Silver eagle by the same artist. I wrote down his name at the time, but have no idea where I put it.

Hope to see these! Two Gila Woodpeckers on my sister's tree in the backyard.

One of her Agave plants had a large flower stalk growing last year. We will be too early for wildflowers this year, I think. It was late March when we went last year.

This lovely white mission out in the desert was fascinating. It was having some restoration work done on it, so the photos were not as nice as I would have liked. I believe it's name is the San Xavier Mission.

Look at the details over the door!

Inside was equally ornate and lovely

A bird I never identified.

Dorothy has several pet tortoises.....they were up and about last year, but may still be in hibernation this year.

She also has a yard full of bunnies! And of course lots of quail.

I posted this once before, but I like this wall at the Tohono Chul Park

And this ground spider web was so cool! I think we saw this in the Sedona area.
Now I'm really starting to think about vacation......let's go!

Wet and windy day in Evansville.....

I woke up yesterday to a driveway that was mostly puddles and pouring rain. I think we need to add some gravel to the low spots.
The squirrels were not happy about jumping puddles....

.....and looked very wet as they gobbled up seed on the walk

This one just didn't trust me and ran up the tree to wait for me to go away.

A pair of Mallards landed on the pond about the time the rain was letting up.

Looking for a nesting site maybe?

The nuthatch didn't mind the rain.

Forsythia bushes are great places to hide....unless you're red. Still a great place to hide from hawks, no matter what color you happen to be.

Titmouse against the gloomy sky

Woodpecker at the top of the maple watching for something. Took me awhile to figure out what kind.....Red-Bellied, I believe.

Later in the day we had terrible wind. I took some videos of the trees blowing just to get the sound, but they aren't that exciting to watch :-)

A couple photos...

Something little......
.....something big!