Time to catch up

Oops, either we've been very busy or I've been to lazy to write each day. Actually it was a little of both. But now I'm ready to write a few posts and bring y'all up to date.

Last Friday (3/13) we took a ride up to Madera Canyon. It was an easy ride through Tucson to Old Nogales Hwy, then south thru rural areas. There we saw acres and acres of pecan groves. We even saw flood irrigation ocurring in one field of trees. (Click on picture to see enlargement and access rest of pics in album.)

From Madera Canyon 3/13/09

At Green Valley we made a wrong turn and found ourselves in what appeared to be a very exclusive retirement community. I first thought it was an upscale shopping area. Wrong!

So we turned around and headed across the desert. Some may think it's boring, but we're fascinated by the vegetation. Not what we expected a desert to look like.

We we finally started riding up into the mountains we couldn't get any good pictures. Kind of like "not being able to see the forest for the trees" - except it was the mountains. Had a nice picnic lunch and a very short hike. Wow, was that trail steep!