Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Granite Hunting - Spring Beauty
Brent and Sandy Ripplinger took us granite hunting. We also had beautiful Spring blossoms on the cactus around us.
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| Beautiful white blossoms |
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| Blow Snake |
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| Elephant Butte |
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| Ocotillo blossoms |
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| One form of Hedgehog |
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| A cactus garden |
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| Prickly Pear - Yellow |
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| Wonderful rock formation by Granite Mine |
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| Flowering tree with red blossoms |
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| Prickly Pear - Pink |
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| Desert Bighorn |
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| Desert Bighorn |
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| A Ram looking down |
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| Gila Monster visitor |
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| What a beauty |
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| Orange Prickly Pear |
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| Column Cactus blossoms |
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| PaloVerde tree blossoms |
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| Mexican Bird of Paradise |
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| Black Shiny Snake on road |
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| Buckhorn with yellow blossoms |
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| Orange Buckhorn |
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| Pink Buckhorn |
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| Orange Prickly Pear & Yellow barrel |
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| Prickly tree-like cactus with blossoms |
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| Beautiful white blossoms |
Family Adventures in Arizona
April 2, 2012 - We had great fun with Steve, Natalie, Kimble and Carter and a visit to Grand Canyon.
April 11-13 Jenamarie, Natalie, Kimble and Carter Visit Arizona
Great finish to the first winter in Arizona. We left Arizona the morning of April 16 and arrived in Holbrook April 18. Home for the summer!
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| Little Colorado Canyon |
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| It's a long way down! |
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| Steve, Carter, Kimble, Natalie & Pa |
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| An interesting tower like ancient ones. |
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| The Petersen's looking great! |
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| Snowflake, AZ Temple from South |
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| Snowflake, AZ Temple from East |
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| Jenamarie, Carter & Kimble |
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| C-141 Pa flew this type |
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| T-37 the first jet trainer at Moody AFB |
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| T-38 the second jet trainer at Moody AFB |
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| Helicopter time |
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| Carter holding the earth from the moon |
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| Kimble standing on the moon holding earth |
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| Shuffle Board |
Great finish to the first winter in Arizona. We left Arizona the morning of April 16 and arrived in Holbrook April 18. Home for the summer!
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Professional Bull Riding
March 17 - We went to the Glendale, AZ Jobing.Com arena for the PBR - Celebration of Pa's 69th birthday.
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| Prior to the Show |
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| Remote aerial inside blimp |
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| Opening Ceremonies |
Coming from Stake Building in Globe, AZ - Sunday, March 18, 2012
Beauties of Spring
Along the roadways and a visit to the arboretum.
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| Hillside along highway |
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| Parry's Penstemmon |
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| Globemallow |
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| Several Varieties |
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| Poppies |
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| Arizona Sunflowers |
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| Look closely to the left of chimes. |
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| At the AJ Library |
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| Desert Bells |
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| Arizona Marigold |
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| Yellow and White on the same vine |
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| Colter's Lupine |
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| Yellow/White vine at Arboretum |
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| Roadside beauty |
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| Monolith at Arboretum |
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| Lovely |
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| First blossom |
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| Picketpost House at Arboretum |
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| Lots of buds |
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| Barrel Cactus |
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