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.


Beautiful white blossoms

Blow Snake

Elephant Butte

Ocotillo blossoms

One form of Hedgehog

A cactus garden

Prickly Pear - Yellow

Wonderful rock formation by Granite Mine

Flowering tree with red blossoms

Prickly Pear - Pink

Desert Bighorn


Desert Bighorn


 A Ram  looking down

Gila Monster visitor

What a beauty

Orange Prickly Pear

Column Cactus blossoms

PaloVerde tree blossoms

Mexican Bird of Paradise


More Spring beauty:
Black Shiny Snake on road

Buckhorn with yellow blossoms

Orange Buckhorn

Pink Buckhorn

Orange Prickly Pear  & Yellow barrel

Prickly tree-like cactus with blossoms

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.
Little Colorado Canyon

It's a long way down!

Steve, Carter, Kimble, Natalie & Pa

An interesting tower like ancient ones.

The Petersen's looking great!


Snowflake, AZ Temple from South
Snowflake, AZ Temple from East

 April 11-13 Jenamarie, Natalie, Kimble and Carter Visit Arizona
Jenamarie, Carter & Kimble

C-141 Pa flew this type

T-37 the first jet trainer at Moody AFB

T-38 the second jet trainer at Moody AFB


Helicopter time

Carter holding the earth from the moon

Kimble standing on the moon holding earth

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!