Dreams, Moments, Travels
Out for dinner at Carrabba’s Italian Grill. This is the view of the kitchen from the pasta bar. The nice thing about eating near the noisy part of this restaurant is that there is never a wait, while a table will take upwards of a half-hour. Although this is a chain restaurant, they still manage to pull off a really good meal and the Dessert Rosa is oh so yummy.
Waiting at the bus stop to meet up with a girl he had met on the bus, this guy decked out in bling carrying roses and a Kiss Me balloon is looking for love. I was informed that he had given up the idea of an acting career and was now simply an entertainer – pole dancing I’ll bet.
With a long exposure taken while driving the car west, I am living dangerously if not more incompetently than cell phone talking drivers. These photos at dusk and later represent desperation that the day is disappearing and I don’t yet have something to post here in my blog. This is my 439th photo of the day posting and with it comes a minor design change where I am enlarging the above photo, removing a column on the left that didn’t seem to add much to my site. Click the above image to view a larger version.
One hundred twenty miles north of Phoenix is Flagstaff, Arizona. This photo looking north towards Flagstaff is of the San Francisco Peaks, part of Mt. Humphries. Mt. Humphries stands at 12,633 ft. (3850 meters) but is believed to have once stood at over 16,000 ft. (4876 meters) prior to blowing its top in a volcanic eruption. The snow from this weekend will melt quickly as temperatures are expected to rise dramatically over the next few days. My drive took me up through Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon, past Slide Rock into Flagstaff. I was going to return via Lake Mary and Mormon Lake, but those minor backcountry roads were still too snowy.
Update: above this post is the original photo and text that was shared here on the blog you are visiting. In 2023, while reviewing what I posted so many years ago, I decided to update some posts where I took other photos worth sharing, but bandwidth limitations at the time stopped me. Now, those concerns are no longer valid, and so for my wife and I to better enjoy our old posts, I’m adding other photos and text that might help fill out the day.
As I stated in the old post, I first drove through Sedona.
At the time, I don’t Caroline and I had much experience with seeing Sedona dusted with snow, but I’m only guessing, as it’s been far too many years between then and now for me to have an accurate enough memory to state that as fact.
This is why EVERYONE should blog about their adventures, as the details are ultimately lost to time unless you have something that allows you to return to them.
In the summer, this location, known as Slide Rock in Sedona, is a super popular spot to do as the name says, slide down the rocks through the creek.
Driving into Oak Creek Canyon, the opportunity to stop for photos is very limited. This concludes my brief update.
From the northwest to the east, Phoenix was half surrounded today by snow-capped mountains, which is a rare sight. Not only did it rain and snow yesterday, but the change in weather helped clear the air and we had clear deep blue skies in all directions. Today’s photo was taken just a few miles north of Phoenix in the village of Cave Creek, Arizona.
After 144 consecutive dry days, the drought has finally given way. Early in the morning, the rain awoke me, or the power outage caused by it did, in any case, I was up early to hear the rain coming down in buckets. By the time I snapped this picture the rain had let up a bit. Though not as heavy, it has not stopped raining since the wee hours. It’s snowing up north and raining down south; oh, how nice it is to have a weekend of winter.