Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, AZ

Peek-a-boo, I See You

We went shooting in the Tohono Chul Park on the Northwest side of Tucson today. Candy is feeling much better but certainly isn't operating at 100% yet. It's frustrating. I feel like I have about 20 years left, 10 of which are good. I need to do everythihng I want to do in those 10 years or those things will never happen. This period of inactivity is giving me cabin fever.

For what it's worth, the restaurant at the park is worth writing home about ...

Springtime in the Desert

Mariachi

Mariachi

Mariachi music (I know very little about it, actually) strikes me as being Mexican country western in 3/4 time. I know that "La Paloma" and "Cielito Lindo" have been on the Mariachi Top 10 for more than 75 years.

This weekend brought a huge Mariachi Convension to town. The Mariachi musicians occupied two stages at Ried Park. The thing that I found most striking was that the quality of music and musicianship was orders of magnitude better than either the blues concert or NAM Jam, held in the same venue.

Ride Me

Ride Me - A metaphor of Life

We spent a couple of hours at the Pima County Fair. Everything seemed to be within six inches of where it was last year. It was almost like walking into a time warp.

I found this angle on a rolli-coaster and punched up the saturation a bit .. well, actually a little more than a bit. I think it needs to be a large format print. I have just the place for it in my office - though, for the place, I wish it weren't so green!

Pima County Fair, 2005

Carnival

I have a face, ya know

The Art of the Midway

Midway Art

Ocatillo

Pima Air and Space Airshow

Japanese Torpedo Bomber (c. 1941) One of the planes that participated in the re-enactment of the bombing of Pearl harbor, December 7, 1941.

One word describes the Pima Air Show and Davis-Monthan AFB. That word is "Huge".

In a Little Cafe

(Marina) In the Diner

I went to the Pima Air and Space Air show at Davis-Monthan AFB with my brother-in-law, Ray and his grand children. We stopped for breakfast before heading for the show and, in spite of my doctor's orders to avoid food groups that begin with the letter "B", I had BACON and eggs with BUTTERED toast. Later, at the show I had a BEER. Now that I'm home I'd have some BEN&JERRY's if we had some in the freezer.

Desert Flower

Marie

One of the situations where posting a "Desires to Work With" acknowledgment on OMP actually generated a response. We had a great shoot today. There are some images in the can for a couple of fine art pieces, including an interpretation of Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Decending a Staircase" and we did a little fooling around with some leg fetish ideas. We talked about a couple of other projects that are of interest to us both. I'm looking forward to working with her in the near future.

From Reddington Pass

It's A Bloomin' Desert, Again

I got Candy out of the house for a ride through Saguaro Park. There's an eight mile loop and we like to keep track of the changes there.

Candy has three more weeks with the hard neck brace, then a doctor's appointment and maybe a soft brace for a while. I told her as soon as she gets past all of this to a point where she can have a sense of humor about it, I'm going to get her a bobble-head doll.

The Poppies at Picacho Park are Past their Prime

In their Glory

Viewing the flowers in the spring is an annual tradition here in the desert. It was bumper to bumper traffic on the roads in Pacacho Peak State Park.