There’s been a glitch in the matrix, as the text accompanying this blog entry is not the original. What happened to what was written back on this day in 2005 is lost in time nor does Archive.org have a copy. Somewhere else on the blog, I believe I explained that I lost all of my posts and had to go to various cache sources to rebuild the posts, I wasn’t successful in recapturing them all.
Update: The photos below were added in November 2022 while I was updating some of my oldest posts, ensuring that my copyright was on the images and that the colors were properly adjusted. In some instances, I update the text as I go along. Regarding this particular post, only the top photo and the three sentences were in the original post due to bandwidth limitations. As those restrictions are no longer relevant, I’m taking the opportunity to add the ones that would have been posted back then had circumstances allowed it.
In the original post, only the flowers were posted, and those were photographed south of Florence on Highway 79 on our drive back to Phoenix. This shot was taken from a bridge over Highway 60 that continues on to Globe further east, but we are traveling south out of Superior on Highway 177.
Just out of town with Superior on our left.
From here, things get fuzzy, although that looks like part of the Ray Mine.
While I’m mostly looking for those beautiful aesthetic shots of the desert, there’s something to be said about the gnarled thickets of desert that also exist.
Considering our next location, this must be looking east from Mammoth, Arizona.
This was the San Manuel-Kalamazoo Mine in San Manuel, Arizona; within two years of me taking this panorama (don’t look too closely at the smoke stack seams; the stitching is less than great), the entire sight was wiped clean, and the land started being remediated. Back in its day, it was an underground mining operation, primarily mining copper.
Our snail neck pillow is always happy to offer us comforting support for a quick nap.
More signs of the recent heavy rains.
Almost home after an all-day out-and-back road trip.