Thursday, March 9, 2017

Cactus Crazy







We visited Anna's dad this February vacation...flew to Phoenix, Arizona for a week.  We were mainly stationed in Mesa, Arizona where he lives, but traveled a lot.  We went down to the Sonora Desert Museum - which was amazing in beauty for a day.  We went up to the Grand Canyon for an overnight, which was cold and vast and amazing.  We hiked in Sedona on the way back and that we without a doubt the best part of the trip in so many ways...gorgeous sky, rock, and of course that climb!!  I fell in love with the cacti while I was there and took hundreds of photo's of them.   SOOO beautiful.  So varied.  So different than any of the vegetation out here on the east coast.    We ate lots of citrus that we picked off the trees in the yard...oranges, lemons, grapefruit, blood oranges.   All there ready to be picked, hanging on the branch looking so darn citrusy and happy and ready to be had.    The weather was not super hot, not super ideal, but it was much warmer than home and we didn't care one speck.  We were just happy to visit Bjorn in his territory.   More photo's and stories will come.   I wanted to write about Anders new plane, and show some great photo's of the hikes we took.   

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