On Monday we went on our first hike with our friends, Bill and Laurie. This hike was in sabino Canyon National Forest. The trail isn't marked on maps, it's just one that they know about. I learned that unmarked/unmaintained trails are called "social trails". This view looks back toward Tucson. I think we walked about 4 miles with a healthy elevation gain. It was quite enough for me since I hadn't really exercised for most of the month of January. I had spent 12 days sitting in vehicles on the twoo road trips and 10 days in the recliner with a cold so I was a little out of shape! I was asleep Monday night by 10. That's really early for me. Bill pointed out an old mine entrance but I was fascinated with the Saguaro perched right on the edge of the entrance. You can see two of the roots exposed. A Saguaro with this many arms is supposedly well over 100 years old. There are a few things in bloom around here. This is an ocotillo plant with bright pink flowers on the tips of the stems. This is a cholla and I don't have to tell you what those flowers look like. Yesterday was rather chilly and we didn't do any hiking. Instead we went to the grocery store to prepare for our friends to arrive last night. Chris went with Bill to pick up another friend at the airport and we enjoyed and afternoon of storytelling in Bill and Laurie's patio.
I also made some progress on the two wheelchair shawls. The one in the right is one whole cake of yarn. I only need to add three rows from the new cake and it will be done. The rest of the new cake will finish off the other one. These will be wrapped up pretty soon. Today we plan to go back to sabino Canyon to take the new arrivals on a short introductory hike. It's going to be chilly again so we will probably be pretty lethargic today. The weather warms up later this week and I see pool time in my furture.
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Gene Black
1/29/2025 10:02:35 pm
Don't get too friendly with those cacti they can get a bit clingy. LOL
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patty
1/30/2025 08:21:31 am
The scenery is wonderful! I just love cactus. That cactus at the mine opening is awesome, but yet so fragile. What is chilly in Tuscon? Today here it is 25 and going to get up to 45 - woohoo! That is like a heat wave after last week's negative temps!
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Mary Anne
2/1/2025 05:55:59 pm
Those cacti are certainly impressive - hard to believe they live that long.
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