Words that describe Arizona

The Talented Quilt Makers who pick out the material and use their kownledge and imagination and time to create these masterpieces are awesome!

Characteristics of Quilting: Quilting is a method of stitching of layers of material together. The use of bold colors and prints, high contrast and graphic areas of solid color, improvistional pieceing, minimalism, expansive negative space, and alternate grid work.

Just a sample of the quilts that were in the show. Another great quilt show, and I won $100 at the raffle they had!

A quilt will warm your body and comfort your soul

I‟m a material girl – want to see my fabric collection?

We celebrated Dave’s Birthday February 27th at our friends Garth & Sharon’s house.

Garth made this really nice wooden bowl for Dave’s snacks.

This cacti has eyes, a nose and ears on top of his head.

I know, it looks kinda like a Teddy Bear?

More beautiful sunsets in Tucson from the park.

Dedicated in February 2011, the Julian Wash Greenway is part of the Chuck Huckelberry Loop. The Huckelberry Loop is 130+ miles of paved pathways all around Tucson. So bring out your bike, your sneakers, skate board, scooter even your horse and enjoy the scenery.

The trailhead parking lot where we started is near Voyager at 7501 S. Kolb Road (one mile north of I-10). The trailhead parking areas have a restroom and drinking fountain, so that’s nice. Also on The Tucson/Huckelberry Loop trail is an impressive lineup of art and sculptures along the path to enjoy. The Loop connects parks, trailheads, bus and bike routes, workplaces, restaurants, schools, hotels and motels, shopping areas, and entertainment places. Visitors and Pima County residents definitely enjoy The Loop. It was Voted the Best Recreational Trail by USA today in 2022.

Artwork on the Loop.

The Loop connects parks, trailheads, bus and bike routes, workplaces, restaurants, schools, hotels and motels, shopping areas, and entertainment places. Visitors and Pima County residents definitely enjoy The Loop. It was Voted the Best Recreational Trail by USA today in 2022. It’s a really nice path to walk or ride whatever.

How about some good old Blues Tunes.

A fun blues concert in the late afternnon and the hot pretzels were good too!

We hiked at the The Sweetwater Preserve. It is a 880+ acre preserve located in the eastern foothills of the Tucson Mountains. It’s only 1/2 mile from Saguaro National Park West) our favorite and Tucson Mountain District. It is a biological research preserve owned by the University of Arizona.

We started at the marker to the Saguaro Vista Trail to The Roller Coaster Trail then followed Wildflower Ridge Trail to The Spine Trail and back. Great walk with lots of great scenery.

It was nice to see the flowers blooming in the desert. Dave & I have like and admire Saguaro Cacti. It’s kinda like the saguaros have personalities cause their so different looking with all their arms and legs. Like in the fifth picture it looks like the cactus grew legs and is ready to start walkin in the desert.

There are quite a lot of old and wise saguaros here. They only place they grow in the world is in the Sonoran Desert in Tucson Az.

What is nice about Sweet Water Preserve and other desert areas you can mountain bike. We came across a few people riding their bikes some of them had their dogs running behind them. It definitely woldn’t be an easy task on most of the trails they have here, you really have to be one with your bike to handle the rough terrain especially going through and over the rocks.

Voyager has concerts in the ballroom every Wednesday. They have actual groups or singers, Dave and I have gone to some. On Wednesday March 6th, was Listen to the Music a Doobie Brothers Tribute band. They weren’t the real deal but the band sounded just as good. My friend Marcia had an extra ticket and I am so glad she gave it to me.

LISTEN TO THE MUSIC is a tribute to the Doobie Brothers which has some of the best musicians and singers in Canada. These very talented musicians. They definitely give their audiences a true experience of seeing and hearing the Doobie Brothers band perform live. If you like the Doobie Brothers Music you will want to see this amazing show . As Listen to the Music travels out and about all over the USA and Canada.

Dave & I wanted to check Hotrods Old Vail for something to eat. It is a racing themed bar, restaurant and a restoration garage located in Tucson. Where you can eat and and watch the retoration of cars behind the glass windows.

Hotrod’s likes to honor America’s love for the automobile. The design of the building has a working custom body shop garage with a high-volume split level restaurant.  Multi-use spaces are used to have backdrops for car shows, bike rallies, drag races, and special events. It also has an elevated patio to watch the car races.

Dave is looking at the menu and to his left you can see the classic cars that are being worked on thru the glass windows.

it was a neat building, It would be a great place to see a race, bike rallies, etc. and the food was good too!

On March 17th, I went on a birding trip with my friend Marcia, the bird lady. We met up with a lot of other birders as it is an important event for watching hawks in Tubac AZ. Actually this event attracts bird watchers from all over the world. Hundreds of bird watchers come here daily from March 1st -31st.

“Several thousand raptors (bird of prey) migrate north above the Santa Cruz River to the delight of birders from near and far.  Among the hawks that migrate through is the Common Black Hawk.  Over half of these southern hawks enter the United States through our valley, many roosting in our cottonwoods overnight before continuing their journey.  March 2024 will be the 12th year that Peter Collins will count the hawks over Ron Morriss County Park.”

It was a nice morning and I got to see the Tubac area which Dave and I want to go and spend a day here. It is the oldest Spanish settlement in AZ. with lots of history, shops and resturants. Lots of things to see and do. At the bird watch today we saw a Black Hawks which are only seen in the canyons of the lower Southwest states and Mexico.