Skip navigation.

arizona vacation

Thursday, 12. February 2009, 02:30:10

, , , ,




rented a car. i left at 4:00 a.m. to get out of los angeles without fighting any traffic. it was a good idea. that is until i found myself driving straight into the rising sun. i was going blind even with shades on so i stopped and had a gigantic breakfast at the inimitable 'dennys'



bobby was totally surprised to see me pull up at the mailbox of his ajo house. the front door was open and i could see him see me. we had a big hug. we talked for hours. he showed me around his house, told a few tales from long ago then drove me around ajo to see the places of interest.


we did a lot of driving around because bobby always wants to show me everything. we even went to mexico where i was his mule... they have duty free stores and tequila and cigarettes are half price. i was only in mexico for ten minutes.


arizona is like another planet.


for more pictures go to album:
http://my.opera.com/I_ArtMan/albums/show.dml?id=694013

it's all about lovethe hopeless romantic

Comments

Léazz 12. February 2009, 03:22

BEAuuuuuuuuuutttifull pictures and glad you're back Sir Scott :wink:

PainterWoman 12. February 2009, 04:04

Love that cactus! What is the name of that mountain that looks like it has a face on it? And where exactly is it?

Glad you had a great time with your brother Scott.

Angeliki 12. February 2009, 04:16

hi meli,
this is a wonderful post,
thanks for sharing with all of us the experience :smile:

you will find another 938473923038474930023 comments, I did realize it after I finished my visit,
you don't have to respond to all, sorry meli, I got over excited :heart:

scott cumming 12. February 2009, 05:08

thanks you highness so glad to have amused you. :smile:

pam,
it is in the saguaro preserve near ajo... i don't know the name of it. but the road makes a big loop and you can't miss it.

that's alright meli, that was kind of fun.

Angeliki 12. February 2009, 05:13

I always promise to be sensible with questions but it seems I am not good at it around you...imagine if we were face to face! thank you for all the answers meli,
I kept you busy for almost 2 hours .... :heart:

scott cumming 12. February 2009, 05:54

well, i didn't mind at all. i felt a relationship. but you're right face to face we would both be talking at the same time. j/k i am a trained listener. :heart:

Nicolas Borgsmidt 12. February 2009, 10:22

WOW. :eyes: What a wonderful breathtaking place :up:

Angeliki 12. February 2009, 11:58

listeners make the best company to share a conversation,
the amazing thing is that around people I admire I can be just a listener too :smile: and then it's time for the music to start :lol: OK I am bubbly I can not hide that much ! :smile:

dɹɐzılpǝkɔıw ɐʞɐ ɹǝɥgɐllɐg lǝbɐsı 12. February 2009, 12:59

You're back! :D I would have loved to have visited Arizona... awww So close once, but couldn't be further away now. I would like to visit New Mexico also. I like the mexican aura to the places, the indian influences etc. Those two places are so full of "another old world" culture. Thanks for sharing. :smile:

scott cumming 12. February 2009, 21:11

hey, nic... it really is brethtakingly beautiful. you really better stick to the road though... it is not very forgiving country for strolling around... need a snake bite kit and food and water in case you get a little lost; and that's easy because it all looks the same sometimes.

meli, :heart: listening is an art, i think. it's quality depends so much on whether one can be interested, same as art. don't pretend to listen.... activate myself and i am interested. velly intellesting eh?

right isabel, you put it very well... the charm of aztec and old spain.... the faces and decorations... so distinctively mexican. thanks for your comment. :heart:

FIFINELEB 12. February 2009, 21:15



Valentines-Day
SparkleTags.Com

FIFINELEB 12. February 2009, 21:20

I've never seen such huge cactuses. Do they blossom some time? At night maybe? And very brievely?

Angeliki 12. February 2009, 22:08

"you really better stick to the road though... it is not very forgiving country for strolling around... need a snake bite kit "

my horse ridding boots will be on at all times! :lol:

oh my!



meli :heart:
I fully agree that listening is an art,
Michael's niece was involved with David Moscioni
well know for his research on HIV treatments,
and now hes Dean at the Medical University in NJ.
One would think that a man like him will have a million things to say ...
Well,
when I met him 12 years ago,
I was surprised to see that his charisma was not to talk but to listen, to this day (we pretty much know everything about each other),
the gift he gives me is to engage conversation without overpowering it! oh,
he makes the best waffles on earth too :lol:

simple is intellect don't you think?

:heart:

kyosi 13. February 2009, 00:46

:smile: muy chévere

Nicolas Borgsmidt 13. February 2009, 18:27

Sorry Scott, I thought you knew. I never stick to the road p: I like to have it in sight, but the hidden parallel trails always seem interesting :D

Angeliki 14. February 2009, 02:56

Photobucket

scott cumming 14. February 2009, 02:59

for me? that's sweet of you. i like bluebirds. how did you know? :love:

Angeliki 14. February 2009, 03:08

sometimes we like the same things meli,
I had a feeling..
:smile: + :love:

scott cumming 14. February 2009, 17:58

meli,
do you like 'lilies of the valley' and blue crocuses in the spring? :heart:

do you like your grapes peeled for you?

do you like the few moments when the red sun sinks into the emerald sea?

could you be content sometimes to bask in the sun and watch the green grass grow?

do you love snuggling in bed with a good book and the one you love so close beside you?

do you giggle when the children giggle?

then you must be my valentine. :love:

Angeliki 14. February 2009, 18:31

meli,
do you know that no girl can say no to any of the above?
do you know I was born the first on May
and lillies of the valley
is my month flower?
do you know you make me giggle right now?
it must be the child in me and you at the same time!

yes, I am your Valentine :love:


Photobucket



How to use Quote function:

  1. Select some text
  2. Click on the Quote link

Write a comment

Comment
(BBcode and HTML is turned off for anonymous user comments.)

If you can't read the words, press the small reload icon.


Smilies

Download Opera, the fastest and most secure browser

Photos

the locals_monterey.jpgpretty cliffs.jpgpink on the wharf_monterey.jpgyellow at the wharf_monterey.jpgthe hotel.jpgfishing trawler.jpglake kawea_ near three rivers.jpgquiet street.jpgriver feeds lake.jpgmy bed.jpg
January 2010
M T W T F S S
December 2009February 2010
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31

share surfing links

178 drawings by I_ArtMan

past musings

  • cookies and dinners

    i'm going to have to fast for a week after all of this cooking and eating. on christmas we had an enormous prime rib roast and four desserts. i made seven dozen cookies. and today i made a new year day feast of rack of lamb with wild rice yams and shallots. i marinated the lamb in fres ...

  • magnum opus calendar

    the culmination of almost a year of work... 780 silkscreen prints with four helpers. my job was to just stay ahead of the printing by making the screens as fast as i could. i did the drawings illustrating the mulla nasr eddin stories all in one day last april. then we did scratchboard versi ...

  • a sense of self

    “if he’s into the bog, we must drag him out. If the trolls have got him, we must ring the bells.” Peer gynt, ibsen The biting November wind, the steaming frost, the brilliant blasting sun rising slices through the naked black oaks. S. is sitting on a cushion by the fire. A sense of self and ph ...

  • dinner as always

    after a long day and a rich experience of life working, finally dinner was ready around 11:00 p.m. (and i had a lovely hungryman t.v. dinner, fried chicken; which will kill you if you eat it too often, in the freezer. i could have had it in a jiffy.) just for my favorite friends... i, with my las ...

  • millbrook, the hall of the mountain king

    in the catskills where rip van winkle slept for forty odd years and ichabod crane saw the headless horseman even stranger events than that took place in castalia where eighty giant oak trees lined both sides of the long driveway leading to the gatehouse. above the crystal clear lake the mansion with ...