In late January of 2020 I got a call from my sister. She and my niece were going to Universal Orlando and since I had purchased an annual pass in December I thought I could get an early start on using it! Little did I know that it would be my last time seeing any of my family in person for over a year and that the annual pass would go unused after…
I had added an extra day onto my time in Arizona so I planned to make one more stop in Phoenix before I headed to the airport. I spent the night in Tucson and drove to …
The macro workshop I was attending was completed but I had decided to stay in Arizona for a couple more days. I wanted to revisit the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum that I had visited the last time I was…
Since we were participating in a macro and close-up photography workshop, a visit to the Tucson Botanical Gardens was a must.
After spending a number of hours exploring our home base at Tanque Verde Ranch our instructor, Mike Moats, let us know we would be driving into Tucson to visit the…
After visiting San Xavier Mission (Part 1), I made the drive across Tucson to Tanque Verde Ranch. I had visited Tanque Verde many years ago…
I was last in Tucson many years ago. One of our stops back then was the San Xavier Mission. The mission was under renovation at that time so we did not get to see inside. As I had some time before I checked in at the guest ranch, I …
I had not been to a photography workshop for a while so when I heard that Phyllis Burchett was running one at Southern Cross Guest Ranch in Madison, Georgia…
On our final full day in New Mexico, we got up very early, piled into our vehicle, and headed to Chaco Culture National Historic Park in northwest NM. Having been there twice before, I was still looking forward to…
We decided we wanted to check out a part of New Mexico that we had not seen before. A friend had recently been to the Abiquiu area and said it was very interesting so we loaded the gear into the vehicle and headed to Abiquiu and the Ghost Ranch….
