My New Hat & Where We Are At!!

My artist friend, Dick Secor, has called me "the flower man". So when I saw this hat at a National Park Visitor's Center, I just had to make a purchase...

...so do you see why I bought the hat!!

Now for where the PUPS and I are "AT"!!!

The PUPS, Doodlebug and Eddie, say, "Welcome to our home site for the next week or so, Windy Hill Campground at Roosevelt Lake which is located off Arizona Highway188 between Globe and Payson, Arizona"...

Above is Tonto National Monument. The two places that look holes is the mountains are cliff dwellings. I, along with several WIN (Wandering Individuals Network) members, will climb up to the dwellings later in the following week.

Above is the upper cliff dwelling.

So, there is a lake here and where there is a lake and WINs there is...

And mountains make for beautiful...

SUNSETS!!

Stay tuned for more shots of Roosevelt Lake and Tonto National Monument. Of course, I will do a flower and/or cactus shot or two... or three... or four...

Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona

Yesterday Pat, Jim and I took a day trip to Chiricahua National Monument, Cochise and Geronimo country...

Look at the tip top of the mountain shown in the above photo. There is a forest ranger lookout post that appears as a dot on top of Sugar Loaf Mountain. More closeup photos to follow later in this post. We are going to climb that mountain!!

Cochise's hideout is shown in the above photo. It is in the farthest mountain range near the center of the photo. The photo was taken from atop Sugar Loaf Mountain.

Jim makes it to the forest ranger lookout.

Pat nears the top of Sugar Loaf Mountain.

The forest ranger lookout on top of Sugar Loaf Mountain.

Do we look a little warn out after our upward journey?!?!?!

 Pat and Jim start back down the mountain.

Finally I see our car. What a climb. The views we enjoyed made it well worth the climb.

We had a picnic lunch before the climb. Below is a visitor that watched as we ate...