Learning already

It's only been a week and a half into the new year, and I'm already learning things! Things like:

1) It is coooold in January even when you go as far south as Patagonia, Arizona. But we had a nice trip anyway.

the dry desolation of southeast Arizona

Yes, that's snow on the ground.

outside our cabin window at Ramsey Canyon Inn

2) I should have kept in touch with the professional artists who thought very highly of my art skills because they would have made me feel guilty for mostly wasting the last 25 years of my life and not working harder at honing my skills (yes, I'm thinking of you, Bill Mammarella and Rick Ortwein).

3) Root veggies like kohlrabi and rutabaga are versatile, tasty, and keep well.


There are a few more things, but I won't bore you with my list. How about you? Learn anything new or deep in the first week plus of January?

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." ~ Douglas Adams

But it's a dry heat

Arizona was a lot like Utah, except not as colorful. It was, however, dry, dry, dry and warm, so a nice change from Indiana. We brought our sun hats.

At Catalina State Park:

At Chiricahua National Monument:

And more of Chiricahua:

Just outside of Willcox:

Ramsey Canyon, top of a trail:

At Miller Canyon the next day - they'd had a fire the year before so the trees were dead and bare:

And finally at Saguaro National Park:

It's a mountainy desert area, what else can I say? I did like Sierra Vista though (and all the fried food of a joint called Lucky Wishbone). Nice size little town, and my dear friend Sara has connections to it. :)

Have you ever been to AZ? What did you think of it?

By the way, I apologize for not responding to comments recently. I read all of them, but time just gets away from me and then I forget to reply.

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." ~ Douglas Adams