But, first our plans for 4/25/83 -- We are going to Yavapai Vista Trailhead and since the sun is rising earlier, we'll start heading out earlier too. This time we'll just up it by 15 minutes and make it 8:15 am as the meet up time.
You'll find directions on the right and we can meet at the start of the trails or by the bench.
Ok, time for the pretty pictures. I arrived and saw that Suzie and Sophie were already heading out and just as I was ready to head down I saw that Lisa & Betty drove in.
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| Betty & Lisa |
And I just found this photo - which is funny because this was an unintended snapshot, but I'm pretty sure that's my shadow (guess my phone decided I needed to be included).
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| My Shadow courtesy of my phone with a button that has a mind of it's own |
Nancy arrived shortly after and as you can see, she learned her lesson from last week and is not all in Black -- that sun gets mighty warm, either that or she resolved her problems with the law 😉
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| Nancy & Lisa |
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| Nancy talking to Suzie and Lisa talking to Sophie |
See all the SAND in that photo. I've never seen sand like that there. It was like that all over the place, I even took some home with me - unintentionally, of course. My sneaks were loaded with it, ugh!
Sandy & Ed (surprise, surprise) came along. We haven't seen Ed in quite some time. But these earlier hours make it easier for him to join us.
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| Sandy |
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| Ed |
Then at Time Stamp 8:54, "she" arrived. That's Nita and the lady in pink that arrived in her orange pumpkin (umm I mean car), Chris. Haven't seen Chris in quite some time too. What a treat to have her and Ed show up.
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| Chris & Nita |
Nita decided to come over and show us her masterpiece very early.
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| Nita's Masterpiece??? |
I wonder if she used invisible paint, maybe invisible ink? Perhaps when she does her "spritzing" something will appear. But, now that I think of it, wouldn't that be a real fun thing to have, invisible paint that shows up when you spritz it. Can you imagine the pieces we would create!
Below you can see some visitors, Sophie doing some trick with her tripod and Suzie in her spot with Sandy behind her in her spot and seated on the right is Betty in her spot. My spot was off behind and to the right of Betty.
Both Lisa and Nancy went further on down the trail into the weeds.
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| (L to R) Lisa and Nancy in their spots plus Lisa's Stuff all over the ground. |
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| Ed in the foreground with Chris (pretty in pink) off to the left and way in the background the group from a few pics above. |
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| Nita in her spot |
Nita pretty much opted for the same spot she had last week. Although you can see that the water has receded somewhat.
When it came time to wrap up, I discovered that LeAnne had arrived at some point, she just never made it up to my spot. She said she wound up waiting about 10 minutes for a parking spot, but before doing so she drove down to see if we were there. Then she decided to go back and wait for the spot. Hey, she had an even shorter amount of time to paint, yet she managed to get something done. We all have managed to whip things out pretty quickly, granted they're not all the masterpieces Nita displayed above (the one you couldn't see), but we do get paint put to paper or canvas.
Well, here we all are minus the 2 that left - so with a smile on 2 it's 3, 2 click
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| Front Row - L to R - Ed, Sandy, Nancy, Betty, Nita, Chris, LeAnne Back Row - Lisa & Me |
Well, that's it for this past week. Very pretty day and a lot of fun. Gee, in looking at Cathedral Rock in the photo, no wonder we all have such a tough time trying to get the perspective right -- it doesn't look like it's as high up as we know it really is.
Till next week!
Cecilia