Another day of waking up to warm
sunshine. We were up early as we were
meeting friends in Tucson at 10 a.m. and we only had a general idea of where we
were going…needed to be out the door by 9:45 at the latest. Waking up to a barking dog, tweeting birds, or highway traffic is all preferable to an alarm. 😉
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Today
was a truck day. We were meeting Bryan
and Linda Schumaker at an art festival in Oro Valley (suburb of Tucson) and I
didn’t want to wander around on a hot day with my riding clothes on. Bryan
and Linda are from Boyne City and come to this area of Arizona for a couple of months
in the winter. Bryan is Kim’s mentor in the astrophotography arena and he also enjoys
the extra imaging opportunities that the Arizona skies offer. As it turned out, I didn’t have to worry about
overheating in my riding gear because while it was a warm day, it was also windy. The wind made all the difference between
comfort and melting. 👍
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Meeting Bryan and Linda at the Spring Festival of the Arts was just the perfect
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There
was something for everyone at this festival today…clothes, lawn décor, jewelry,
paintings, potpourri, pottery, music…and things that spin in the wind. That’s my weakness…wind art. I have various windsocks, chimes, spinners…and
enough wind at our house to make them all twirl, chime and spin. Today not only
did I see a fun spinner but it had a kokopelli on it, too. Bonus!! But I
decided to walk around, think on it, talk to Kim…maybe come back to get
it. Found another vendor with wind art
but the first one I’d seen was my choice…I wanted Kim’s opinion so I took him
back to see it, hoping it was still there.
It was and while we were discussing it and waiting for the vendor to
finish another sale, a woman came up and started looking it over closely. Too
closely. Ah, no, lady…this is mine. I saw
it first. You find another one. At that point, Kim took it down for me and
the lady hurried off. Well, she went
around the table to talk to the vendor…she asked if there was another one with
the kokopelli on top. She
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On our way home from Tucson today, we did
some geocaching. There were lots of
geocache opportunities on the map but we were zipping past them as fast as I
was finding them. We needed to get off
the highway to do this properly. Got off
to a false start with the first one…the map showed the road crossed the
railroad tracks when in reality it did not.
Couldn’t get there from here, so we had to backtrack. At that point it was easy to find. Second one wasn’t easy to find…in fact, we
couldn’t find it. So we drove away
defeated but down the road was a Dairy Queen so we soothed our bruised
geocaching egos with ice cream. 😏
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We
got back to camp late afternoon…we had time to take a ride on either form of
bike before the sun went down but we
practiced just being in camp. At one point, a drone appeared overhead…there
were new people in the tent area and it belonged to them. On a trip back from the bathroom, I stopped
to talk to them about it. Dad and his 19
year old son Max from Phoenix. Max is
taking a trip cross country trip this summer and it sounded like there was some
concern about where to spend the night, so Dad was showing him how to do this wonderful invention called camping. 😊 Anyway, the sky was starting to clear so Kim extended an invitation to
look through the scopes when it got dark enough. Dad and Max did come over and were impressed
with looking through the little scope but were really intrigued by the process
of imaging. Because the sky had cleared, Kim was able to take them through the
steps…aligning, guiding, taking pictures, the computer set up, etc. It’s fun to watch people’s reactions to what’s
up there that we simply can’t see with the naked eye.
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No bike activity today...
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