Professional Bull Riding

March 17 - We went to the Glendale, AZ Jobing.Com arena for the PBR - Celebration of Pa's 69th birthday.

Prior to the Show

Remote aerial inside blimp

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.

Hillside along highway

Parry's Penstemmon

Globemallow

Several Varieties

Poppies

Arizona Sunflowers

Look closely to the left of chimes.

At the AJ Library

Desert Bells

Arizona Marigold

Yellow and White on the same vine

Colter's Lupine

Yellow/White vine at Arboretum

Roadside beauty

Monolith at Arboretum

Lovely

First blossom

Picketpost House at Arboretum

Lots of buds

Barrel Cactus

Tombstone - March 3, 2012

We made the long ride to Tombstone and back in one day.  Not again!  We left Queen Valley, traveling south through Florence along the Pinal Pioneer Parkway to Oro Valley and I10.  You go east on I10 to Benson and then south to Tombstone.  We came back to I10 and traveled east and then north to Safford - Globe - Superior and home.  We got to see the beautiful Gila Valley Temple as we passed through Safford Valley.

Street in front of OK Corral

Entrance to OK Corral Reenactment

Cochise County Courthouse 1882

Named after founder

City Hall 

1881

Outside the Saloon

Stagecoach & Wagon

$37,000,000 in silver mined in 8 yrs.

Ore cars

Oriental Saloon

Wells Fargo Office

Bird Cage Theater - Original items

Famous in Western History

Desert Graveyard restored

Billy Clanton-Tom McLaury-Frank McLaury
OK Corral Gunfight - Part of "The Cowboys"

Laid out in 1878 as Tombstone Cemetery

Wyatt Earp Tombstone buildings

Terrain of area

Texas Canyon east of Benson