Trip Up South Mountain

South mountain Park has been mentioned as the largest city park in the world. At nearly 17,000 acres it certainly covers a lot of ground, although it isn't a park in the sense of grass, and playgrounds, and lakes, and ducks, as one might think. South Mountain Park is a desert mountain preserve.

Below is a view of downtown Phoenix from South Mountain.

Jerry and Linda hiking up to one of the trails on my suggestion only to find out we could have drove to the start of the trail.
Jerry and Linda posing with a background view of Phoenix.
That's me and my cousin posing as my husband tries out my camera.
Captured this man jumping from mountain peak to mountain peak....so cool.

Arizona Photo's......

More photo's from our stay in Arizona.....hope your enjoying them.

Most of us have heard of stores called Build A Bear well in Glendale we found a store to build cars. Since our grandsons love the Sion car we build one for each of them as shown in these photo's. The last photo is the finish product of one of the cars.

The next photo's were taken at Boyce Thompson Arboretum. Here we hiked for several hours and enjoyed the scenery with my cousin and her husband.

The New Rawhide....

When we lived in Arizona we often took our guest to Rawhide for a day of experiencing the OLD WEST. Since our last visit there they have moved and expanded what they have to offer for entertainment. They have gun fights on the street, shows, donkey rides and one can get a steak dinner and view an old western movie as one eats, plus the many gift shops of western wear. They now have a small museum on the premises which I posted one picture of a coin operated machine that plays a violin. I thought this was so unique for I never saw one before. The day we went the AGRA met at Rawhide, no opinion on this. The other photo's, are of me that my husband took as we toured the grounds.

Happy Valentine's Day to all. Sorry no cards to show you lately hopefully I'll find time this week to make some.

A Day of Riding....

Today we rode to Superstition Mountain

Pictures are of places we stopped to see along the way

Ghost Town and Superstition Mountain Museum

Pictures below Arizona sky...