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Jo Ann & Francis: We were both born in south Louisiana. Spent 32 years in Bartlett, TN now residents of Alaska

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

March 2010 in Tuscon AZ area

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Labels: Snow on Mt. Lemon with lots of desert vegetation.

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Labels: Harris Hawk. We saw about a dozen in this area.

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Labels: Beautiful green desert near Tucson

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Labels: Del Sol Casino - a great boondocking site in Tuscon

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Labels: San Xavier (White Dove) Oldest active church in US

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Labels: Church interior

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Labels: Early cactus blossoms

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Labels: Cactus garden at White Dove Misson

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Labels: AZ from "A" Mountain, Looking down on Tucson

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Labels: Some saguaro are really strange looking.

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Labels: Gates Pass

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Crested saguaro (1 in 200,000 plants.)

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Labels: Saguaro live 150 to 200 yrs. Tissue is 85% water and can weigh 8 tons.

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Labels: It is always nice to see some of the CCC work from the past.

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Labels: AZ area we enjoyed pizza and music at the Organ Stop., While in the Mesa

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Labels: While at Rovers Roost Jo Ann learned several new crafts including zipper art.

Casa Grande area in Arizona

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Labels: Petroglyphs

February 2010 in Arizona

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Labels: Before the building of jails the bad guys were chained to jail trees.

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Labels: Wic

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Labels: AZ, Congress, North Ranch Rainbow Park

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Labels: 1600 year old saguaro at Rainbow park

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Labels: Cactus garden at North Ranch

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Labels: Arizona has many huge cattle feed lots.

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Labels: Jerome AZ started out as a mining town and now is an artist villiage.

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Labels: AZ, Sunrise in Cottonwood

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Labels: Three of the five hot air balloons we saw this morning

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Labels: Beautiful mountains in Oak Creek Canyon, Sadona Area

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Labels: AZ, Road thru Sadona

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Labels: More snow in Sadona

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Labels: Low water bridge near Sliding Rock SP

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Labels: Sliding Rock State Park beautiful rock formations and water flow.

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Labels: First eagle in Arizona

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Labels: How about a tour of the area in pink jeeps?

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Labels: Bell rock

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Labels: Ninety foot cross on top of l00 ft. rock at Sadona

January 2010 in Arizona

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Labels: Following our visit at St. Anthony's we decided to dirve highway 60 to Globe. There is plenty of snow at this elevation.

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Labels: AZ, Inactive mine near Globe

St. Anthony's Newest chapel

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Labels: This chapel is now being finished and is not open to the public.

Greek Orthodox Monestary, St. Anthony's

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Labels: In 1995 nine monks arrive to build a monestary. There are currently 20 monks living, worshiping and working here.

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Labels: skirts and head coverings to loan., When people arrive without the proper attire the monks have long sleeve shirts

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Labels: Russian chapel

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Labels: Spanish fountain

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Labels: Bell tower

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Labels: One of the nine chapels at the Monestry.

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Labels: Main courtyard

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Labels: Bishop's throne and monk's chairs. They actually stand at these churches and lean on the high arms. If they get to tired they can turn down a small seat and rest on it.

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Labels: Another view inside church

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Labels: Inside St. Anthony's Church.

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Labels: Some of the rivers in Arizona actully have water in them.

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