January

Since it's almost over, I'm catching up with some January happenings.  On Saturday, Jan. 5 we joined  a group sponsored by BEYOND  and hiked in the Catalinas, in Oracle State Park.  It was a day of outside events all around Tucson to commenorate the people who were injured and killed in the January shooting 2 years ago.  It was a little frosty when we met the group at 8:30.

 It was a beautiful day and there were about 30 people who chose the same hike.

About 5 days later we went to Santa Barbara for a few days.   We had a good time with Wendy, John, Henry, Mae, and Lucy, but only Lucy made it to the camera.

We stayed in Solvang, which is close to Leslie's barn.  Lucy spent a night with us so she and I could go riding in the morning and, although it was 27 that morning, she really wanted to test the hot tub.

 

 

 



Christmas

We spent a nice quiet Christmas here in Arizona.

We had a fire (although we didn't need one) and then took a short hike in Sabino Canyon.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
 

 

 



Long Weekend in Phoenix

On Thursday we drove to Phoenix for the start of a great weekend. Thursday night's concert at Jobing.com Arena was terrific. How can Bruce not be terrific?

He closed, 3 (straight) hours and 20 minutes later, with Santa Claus is Coming to Town and invited all the children onto the stage.  It reminded me of Central Park and Jil on stage with all the children - that time invited by Pete Seeger.

We stayed within walking distance of the arena and were surprised the next day to see what we had walked past in the dark.

We drove back to Tucson, where we saw this Great Horned Owl.

Quite a weekend!

 

 



Thanksgiving in Aluquerque

We left Colorado on Nov.19, after having a birthday dinner with Jil (hopefully pictures will follow shortly) and drove to Albuquerque where we met up with Kate, James, Kyle and Liam.  We visited Petroglyph National Monument,

the Albuquerque International Balloon Museum, (not sure why this was in the balloon museum).

 

 the Explora Science Center and Children's Museum, where there were challenges for all.

and help too!

 

On Thanksgiving day we rode the Sandia Peak Tram.

And ended the day with a  nice harvest dinner at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.