Tucson, Organ Pipe Cactus Nat Monument, Phoenix, Four Corners

We have seen a lot of museums. This is at the U of Arizona @ Tucson - Indian masks...

Entrance to the University.

A Puma; A Ringtail (I think).
At the Arizona Desert Museum: Far right, Saguaro Cactus; Near, Baja Firebarrel Cactus.

Saguaro looking vaguely like something out of Muppets. Saguaro with a Cactus Wren in residence.

Kit fox; Victoria Regina Agave.



A cave fish. Some of them are blind; don't know about this one, which kept following Barb as she walked past.

A 'Lifesaving' Cactus, which supposedly leans to the North and can help you tell which way is North (needed when the sun doesn't shine, which is never). Juice is not drinkable.

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Right at the South end of New Mexico, and very hot. An Organ Pipe Cactus.



Right, a Cholla. Below, Stwo aguaros.

Phoenix: Performing Atrs Center designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Even more impressive from inside.

Aloe Dorotheae, Tanzania.








On the road again: A failed attempt at a tourist trap - looks a bit like a giant dodo skull...Would you like to sleep in a house with a roof like that?

Williams, Arizona, having a small motorcycle rally (The Big One, in Sturgis, ND, draws 500,000, they say. Have to see that).

Williams was named after Old Bill Williams. a famous (and occasionally infamous) Mountain Man.

The Four Corners, where Arizona, New Mexico, COlorado and Utah meet at a point. You have to stand in line to have your picture taken. After that, there are a couple dozen stands selling jewelry etc.: