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During our stay in Ortisei, we set aside a day to visit Lago di Braies — a popular alpine lake in the Braies Valley, a two-hour drive from Val Gardena. Known as one of the most scenic spots in the Dolomites, it's framed by the cliffs of the Croda del Becco and surrounded by dense pine forests.
We hiked the full loop around the lake, a gentle trail of just under 5 kilometers in length. It's not a demanding walk — no serious elevation gain — but the setting is nothing short of spectacular: turquoise water, wooden boats, forest paths, and constantly changing views.
After several days of longer hikes and steep climbs, this was precisely the kind of slower-paced day we needed.
Sometimes, less distance brings just as much reward.
My long johns are more than 10 years old and hardly the worse for wear, not surprisingly, given the few opportunities for them in southeast Texas. Nevertheless, they are a favored bit of gear because when I don them it means the morning will be cold and clear with a layer of mist on the bayou to soften the glare of the rising sun. Add in a few cooperative birds and the experience can border on magical.
Pied-billed Grebes on Mud Lake, Pasadena, Texas.
ORPTS heads down the hill towards the St. Croix River. Aside from just being a massive joke, the paint scheme on this unit is starting to look a little rough.
This year we end the Seven Days of Thanksgiving series in Paprihaven on the day after. Why? While it is wonderful to have a day set aside specifically to acknowledge our impossible debt to God by expressing our gratitude, every day should truly be a day of thanksgiving. After the amazing celebration at the Simmons,* the girls are back at Tracy's house.
Tracy: Wow. So tired. What a great time. Thank you, God.
Buckley: I'm so stuffed! I'll sleep on this bench if I can't make it upstairs.
Tracy: Who said you're staying here??
Buckley: You gotta be responsible, Trace! You can't let me drive home in this condition.
Briar: HAHAHA!
Tracy: You're not drunk! You don't even drink!
Buckley: I'm loaded with tryptophan. I can't make it. I'm DONE FOR, offissaaAAaa!
Briar: HAHA! What's 'trippafan'?
Tracy: It's an amino acid in turkey that people say makes you sleepy. I think what happened is we all just ate too much.
Briar: I ate sooooo much! I looooved that corn casserole! Who made that?
Tracy: I think Honor did.
Buckley: Ooohhh, I'm gonna pop. Let's just all get in bed, under the covers, and tell stories til we fall asleep.
Briar: That's FUN!
Buckley: But y'all GOTTA CARRY ME UUUUUUP!
Briar: HAHAHA!
Tracy: Oh, good grief. I'm stuck with both of you tonight. Are you sure you even have homes? You're always here.
Buckley: Oh! Haha! On Paprichat, Sheila Harper posted a video of her poodle grabbing a piece of turkey from the table!
Briar: I want to see that!
Tracy: Can you not be on your phone for like two seconds? And, I want to see too. And, who's Sheila Harper?
Buckley: She's got that pretty green Jaguar? Always real shiny? **
Tracy: Oh, yes.
Briar: I wanna see the video!
Buckley: Then come over here.
Briar: Can't move. You come over here.
Buckley: Uh uh.
Briar: BuuUUUUCK!!!
Buckley: You're outta luck, kid.
*WOOF!*
Briar: Hey, Biff!
Buckley: The Biffster!
Tracy: Wow, what a great day. And now we're just chilling. Peace. Joy. Love. God is good.
Buckley: All the TIME!
Briar: All the time!
Tracy: And, all the time...
Buckley: God is GOOD!
Briar: God is good!
Tracy: Bible challenge, then we somehow struggle upstairs. God's loving kindness. Psalm 117:2, "For His lovingkindness is great toward us, and the truth of the Lord is everlasting. Praise the Lord!"
Briar: Psalm 63:3, "Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips will praise You."
...
Tracy: Buckley...
Buckley: Um... What's the one? "Please answer me God because you are loving and kind... and compassionate?"
Tracy: Close enough! Psalm 69:16, "Answer me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good; According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me." Okay, upstairs! Up!
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
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God wants you to give thanks.
Well, Thanksgiving came and went. Did your gratitude last beyond your afternoon nap? For many, that’s the extent of their thanksgiving—a one-time, get-it-out-of-the-way holiday that reminds them to reflect on how blessed they are. Too often and too quickly, people resort back to being ingrates. But God wills us to be thankful all the time, in all things. That’s the point of 1 Thessalonians 5:18 where Paul says, “In everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” So if you’re saved, Spirit-filled, sanctified, submissive, and suffering, you have one thing left to do in order to follow God’s will—be saying thanks.
Paul’s simple, direct command—in everything give thanks—allows believers no excuse for harboring ingratitude. In everything carries an unlimited requirement. It refers to everything that occurs in life. With the obvious exception of personal sin, we are to express thanks for everything. No matter what struggles or trials, God commands us to find reasons for thanking Him always (Acts 5:41; James 1:2-3; 1 Peter 1:6-9). That’s His will.
If you’re not obeying that command, you’re not following God’s will. Think of it like this: If gratitude doesn’t come easy for you, neither will finding God’s will. Or to put it another way, if you struggle with being thankful, you’ll struggle with following God’s will. Need some motivation? Here are some reasons God wills you to be thankful:
God commands it:
Gratitude should come naturally to believers in response to all God has done on their behalf, but because of our hardness of heart, God enjoins us to thanksgiving with commands (Philippians 4:6; Colossians 2:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:18). Therefore, all forms of ingratitude are sinful. Paul commanded the Colossians, “And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful” (Colossians 3:15).
When Paul describes the believer’s Spirit-filled life, he writes, “speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father” (Ephesians 5:20). God doesn’t merely command those expressions of gratitude and leave believers helpless to comply. He enables us to articulate them (Philippians 2:13), and is pleased when we do.
Joni Eareckson Tada, who was involved in an accident that left her paralyzed from the neck down, writes, “Giving thanks is not a matter of feeling thankful, it's a matter of obedience.”
Thankfulness acknowledges God’s sovereignty:
The single, greatest act of worship you can render to God is to thank Him. It’s the epitome of worship because through gratitude, we affirm God as the ultimate source of both trial and blessing—and acknowledge our humble acceptance of both.
With a thankful heart, you can say in the midst of anything, “God be praised.” That kind of attitude looks beyond the circumstance to the plan of God. It sees beyond the pain to the sovereignty of God. It remembers, “God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28). An attitude of thankfulness enables us to deal with those who wrong us, saying with Joseph, “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good” (Genesis 50:20). Those who are thankful see the providential hand of God everywhere and say, “God, I thank You for the peaceful times as well as the hard times—a difficult marriage, a challenging job, a severe illness—because I know You will use those things for my good and Your glory.”
The grateful Christian remembers that suffering perfects, confirms, strengthens, and establishes him (1 Peter 5:10). God wills that kind of thankfulness.
God judges ingratitude:
William Shakespeare wrote, “How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. Ingratitude thou marble hearted fiend.” If Shakespeare understood the hostile attitude behind thanklessness, imagine what God must think about it.
Ingratitude is the very essence of an unregenerate heart, ranking among the most intolerable sins in Scripture. The apostle Paul identified unbelievers as ungrateful: “For even though they knew God [through conscience and general revelation], they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened” (Romans 1:21). Because man in his pride fails to honor and glorify God as Creator, he also refuses to thank Him for His gracious provision. Ingratitude betrays unbelief, and both sins bring about God’s judgment.
Although God is the source of every good thing that men possess—giving life, breath, rain, sunshine, and other natural blessings to the just and unjust alike (Matthew 5:45; Acts 14:15–17)—the natural man refuses to thank Him. In his fallen mind, to thank God is to acknowledge his own obligation to worship Him.
In summary, God wills our being thankful in all things because gratitude is the ultimate expression of a transformed heart. But thanklessness can infest and destroy a church, marriage, family and home. So cultivate a heart of gratitude. Be thankful for all things and in all circumstances. That’s God’s will. Are you following it?
- John MacArthur, adapted from God Wants You To Give Thanks
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* As seen yesterday!
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** As seen in BP 2021 Day 107!
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Previous Days of Thanksgiving on Paprihaven:
2015:
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2016:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/31221411415/
2017:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/37886668344/
2018:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/31063953947/
2019:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/49137396007/
2020:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/50649209702/
2021:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/51704094592/
2022:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/52521485290/
2023:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/53349976036/
2024:
Interesting MOT history aside, good to see one. Not particularly common anymore, although always a bit thinner on the ground.
Aside from the shadow, what I I liked here was that (what looks like the sails of a wherry across the water) were at the same angle as the cranes.
aside from british literature, painting is my favorite class.
it's comforting to know that i won't be graded on what i know or what i've memorized,
but what i can create.
#108: i like using pert plus shampoo because it smells nice and it's green.
I post this image every year, typically with a message of patriotism and thoughtful reflection. This year is no different, but we’ve got a lot to think about. I’ve said this before: Canada as a country has come a long way, yet we still have further to go.
I was reading a story today in the National Post about a US bill to honour Americans who came to Canada during the early years of World War II to fight alongside Canadian and British forces, well before the United States was willing to enter the war. Canada was there from the beginning, defending freedom and culture, while simultaneously destroying it on our own soil in the form of residential schools.
It’s a tough truth to look at. Some indigenous people also fought in the war, defending Canada while their own culture was being erased; a number of them are highlighted here: www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/classroom/fact-sheets/... . The duality of Canadian history needs to be rewritten. I learned to be proud of my country’s accomplishments throughout school, I learned all the good things. Never once did I hear the words “residential schools” in my public education. Only in the past few years did I truly understand the concept, thanks to a push for truth and reconciliation.
A concept nearly as old as the founding of Canada as a “country”, and lasting through to the late 1990’s in some areas, indigenous children were separated from their families and communities by force. They were taught English. They were taught colonial beliefs, religion, and manners. They were to forget where they came from. Most importantly, they were treated less than human – as evidenced by the growing discovery of unmarked graves containing the bodies of hundreds of children. As a father of a five year old girl, this is beyond depressing.
I look at the past and don’t exclusively feel despair. I know Canada today to be a cultural mosaic, and I also know that actions are being taken to atone for the crimes of previous generations. It’s my hope that this knowledge becomes powerful. I wish for this entire story to be uncovered, documented, and taught in schools. I will also be carving out time today to write to all levels of my government with my opinions for action. I would not consider myself a political activist, but I feel the need to help Canada become a better place for everyone; this is not done by concealing the crimes that serve as an antithesis to current policies.
When I first created this image, I did some adjustments. I shortened the stem of the main leaf to more closely match the design of the national flag of Canada. I also repaired the tip of a leaf that I had accidentally broken. I did not correct the blemishes on the leaves, including the one in the center, on purpose. As proud as I am to be born in Canada, such pride is not blinding. I knew there to be flaws in this great country, and for an image I hoped would symbolize it, I felt it more accurate to keep the blemishes intact. They are noticeable. They should not be conveniently disregarded.
This Canada Day, I will not be celebrating. Aside from taking the opportunity to write letters, I’ll be cooking for my family, spending time playing with my daughter, and possibly gardening. All activities that allow me time to think, time to reflect. In my mind, the Canada I grew up admiring has become much more complex, but I am now a member of this society. I try to live in the world in such a way as to make it better for all. I hope we can all take some time to reflect on our history as a country today. While I love what Canada has become, we’ve still got work to do.
Aside from old Acela train sets, the big thing on my hit list for my NEC min-trip was Conrail's local freight operations on the Northeast Corridor. Of these moves, the ME02 (or ME-2, or WPME02, or whatever you prefer) is generally the easiest to grab, making an appearance just after lunchtime on weekdays. In between passenger moves, they backed onto the main at and wasted no time pulling departing south, with their lead GP40-2 running long-hood forward.
Aside from the usual Canadian National and Illinois Central SD70s that live on Canadian National’s daily L5369124 job from Glenn Yard in downtown Chicago to Kirk Yard in Gary Indiana, this change of pace lashup consisting of an CN SD60 (CN 5442) that’s at the helm, along with an Illinois Central SD70 (IC 1017) and a CN SD40-2W (CN 5246) still in its original “Zebra” paint as the trailing units.
After getting light from RTC, the train charges southbound through one of the busiest junction’s in Chicagoland that is Kensington, a place that sees large amounts of passenger trains from Metra Electric, South Shore and Amtrak, as well as numerous freights from CN, South Shore and sometimes even NS. The train is seen here ducking under one of the handful remaining Illinois Central “bowling alley” signal bridges on the CN Chicago Sub, a frame that can only be done when they run Main 1, which is quite uncommon.
Taken: 3-9-24
In the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Cades Cove has been set aside as an area to preserve some of the historic barns, homes, and buildings that were the homesteads of those who lived here in the late 1880s to mid 1930s, when this land became the National Park.
This is the Tipton Place, on the Cades Cove loop. In the background is a prime example of a cantilevered barn-- a design nearly unique to this part of the country. See this entry for more info. tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=195
Aside from street photography, I also curate a gallery called Digital Dog Park where I try to create a digital space for K9 lovers to mingle in the comments and meet other like minded photographers on Flickr.
horcruxes:
olympus : street : black and white
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NECR 610 grabs three loads from Willimantic Waste, after setting aside PW 3906, fresh from the St. Albans paint booth.
My youngest daughters painted this on their bedroom wall, and it remains there -- forever! I remember their tiny hands dipping brushes in paint, all of the thought that went into planning this wall painting, and then the complete satisfaction of seeing their finished product. Blue sky, sunshine, butterfly, puffy white clouds, green grass, a gorgeous tree, and children playing. Kids have it "right" at a very young age! Oh, if only we kept a child-like heart forever!
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Peninsula Trees, Morning. © Copyright 2021 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Trees on a rocky peninsula catch the first morning sun at a Yosemite National Park backcountry lake.
There’s nothing like have the time for a slow morning wandering the perimeter of a forest-lined Yosemite backcountry lake. We camped at this one for something like four nights back in 2014, when a group of us spent a week in the high country making photographs. Each morning, well before sunrise, it was down to the shoreline wander and photograph.
I love photographs of trees in back-light, but there are some challenges. The obvious one, of course, is that you are pretty much guaranteed to be shooting almost directly into the sun. But second challenge is that the scene between camera position and subject is often in the bright sunlight, even if the background is pleasantly shaded. Photographing on a lake can help with this issue since the water helpfully reflects that shaded background and is hardly affected at all by the direct light, aside from a bit of extra illumination of anything that happens to be floating on the water.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
My second attempt on doing some light painting, came out not that bad, considering that I was alone.
I had some extra work, as I had to do the shooting and the lighting all by myself. I sure did some exercicing, running from the camera to inside the building, climbing a wall and some stairs in between, and going back to stop the shutter.
That's a composition of 4 pictures. I used photoshop only for blending the pictures and to adjust a tiny bit the curves.
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Aside from street photography, I also curate a gallery called Digital Dog Park where I try to create a digital space for K9 lovers to mingle in the comments and meet other like minded photographers on Flickr.
horcruxes:
olympus : street : black and white
© All rights reserved. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
Aside from street photography, I also curate a gallery called Digital Dog Park where I try to create a digital space for K9 lovers to mingle in the comments and meet other like minded photographers on Flickr.
horcruxes:
olympus : street : black and white
© All rights reserved. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
Well aside from the vicious mosquitos which were so thick it was hard to even get an image without ten of them on the lens, here's a beautiful sunrise from the aptly named Paradise...
I attended a track day earlier in the year for the launch of several new Mercedes models . . . the day itself was awesome . . . what's not to love about fanging it around a closed race circuit . . . that aside they also had these very stylish Mercedes coffee cups . . . Mercedes macchiato or a Benz brew anyone?
You can see all my 'What's Brewing' images here: 100 x What's Brewing: The 2016 edition.
Aside from some crazy winter weather on Wednesday, we have been enjoying some beautiful spring weather this week, so I thought I'd take a short break from our Yellowstone winter shots to share a few from the archives I never got around to posting.
Same favorite tree....different comp....and with the exception of adding some contrast and doing a little sharpening, this is sooc; it was a beautiful way to end a day spent visiting with my mom during some of her last days with us :-)
TGIF....Many thanks for all your visits and comments!!!!
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Pelicans are large, bulky waterbirds with webbed feet, short legs, and a remarkably long bill. The underside of their bills extends into a pouch that can hold 2-3 gallons of water at a time, used to trap fish. When hunting, they spot their prey from the air and plunge into the water head-first. After trapping the fish, they drain the water out the sides of the bill, and then swallow the fish whole. Brown pelicans incubate their eggs with their feet, essentially standing on them to keep them warm. Unfortunately, the use of the pesticide DDT caused brown pelican numbers to plummet during the 20th century. Much like the decline of the bald eagle, DDT thinned the pelicans’ egg shells, causing them to break during incubation. After DDT use was banned, brown pelican numbers slowly recovered and they were officially removed from the federal endangered species list in 1985. The National Aviary is home to two brown pelicans, Ralph and Dexter. They were both injured in the wild and are unable to be released. The Brown Pelican is one of only three pelican species found in the Western Hemisphere, and one of only two pelican species which feed by diving directly down into the water.
[Source: www.aviary.org/animals/brown-pelican]
The brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is a North American bird of the pelican family, Pelecanidae. It is one of three pelican species found in the Americas and one of only two that feeds by diving in water. It is found on the Atlantic Coast from Nova Scotia to the mouth of the Amazon River, and along the Pacific Coast from British Columbia to northern Chile, including the Galapagos Islands. The nominate subspecies in its breeding plumage has a white head with a yellowish wash on the crown. The nape and neck are dark maroon–brown. The upper sides of the neck have white lines along the base of the gular pouch, and the lower foreneck has a pale yellowish patch. The male and female are similar, but the female is slightly smaller. The non-breeding adult has a white head and neck. The pink skin around the eyes becomes dull and gray in the non-breeding season. It lacks any red hue, and the pouch is strongly olivaceous ochre tinged and the legs are olivaceous gray to blackish-gray. The brown pelican mainly feeds on fish, but occasionally eats amphibians, crustaceans, and the eggs and nestlings of birds. It nests in colonies in secluded areas, often on islands, vegetated land among sand dunes, thickets of shrubs and trees, and mangroves. Females lay two to three oval, chalky white eggs. Incubation takes 28 to 30 days with both sexes sharing duties. The newly hatched chicks are pink, turning gray or black within 4 to 14 days. It takes about 63 days for chicks to fledge. Six to nine weeks after hatching, the juveniles leave the nest, and gather into small groups known as pods. The brown pelican is the national bird of Saint Martin, Barbados, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and the Turks and Caicos Islands, and the official state bird of Louisiana. In 1902, it was made a part of the official Louisiana seal and, in 1912, a pelican and her young became part of the Flag of Louisiana as well. It has been rated as a species of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. It was listed under the United States Endangered Species Act from 1970 to 2009, as pesticides like dieldrin and DDT threatened its future in the southeastern United States and California. In 1972, the use of DDT was banned in Florida, followed by the rest of the United States. Since then, the brown pelican's population has increased. In 1903, Theodore Roosevelt set aside the first National Wildlife Refuge, Florida's Pelican Island, in order to protect the species from hunters.
[Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_pelican]
The National Aviary, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is the only independent indoor nonprofit aviary in the United States. It is also the country's largest aviary, and the only accorded honorary "National" status by the United States Congress. The aviary is home to over 500 birds representing more than 150 species, and is a member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).
[Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Aviary]
Abandoned
Cast aside
No care given
Misused
Abused
Totally forgotten
Will it be fixed, used again
Will it be ignored
Thrown on the scrapheap
With all the others
***NO INVITES PLEASE
Aside from an incredible dating auction under way, OML is also well into construction of our Decadance Hotel. Beginning February 22nd thru end of May, we will be sweeping our guests thru time as we celebrate this year's theme, Decades of Hope.
Each day will be unlike the other, maybe not even the same decade. With an energetic staff on-hand to serve your every need during your extended weekend stays, your entertainment options will be endless and all for a great cause.
Additional info and photos coming soon!
*All proceeds go to the American Cancer Society.
Aside from its natural attractions, Milford Sound is also rich in history and culture. The area has been inhabited by the Maori people for over a thousand years, and their history and traditions are reflected in the local landmarks and traditions.
Aside from photography, my other passion is woodworking. Especially wood turning! A square block of wood is placed on the lathe. With a finely honed chisel, that block is slowly rounded into a cylinder. With each pass of the chisel shavings peal away and the eventual shape begins to emerge. The work is almost hypnotic and I can completely loose myself and all semblance of time.
“MS Pride of America is a cruise ship operated by NCL America, a division of Norwegian Cruise Lines, to sail itineraries in the Hawaiian Islands. Construction of the ship began in 2000 in the United States as part of a plan for a U.S.-built and U.S.-flagged cruise ship under Project America, but the project failed and she was eventually purchased by Norwegian Cruise Lines and completed in Germany. She was inaugurated in 2005, and was the first new U.S. flagged, U.S.-built (aside from the outfitting) deep water passenger ship in nearly fifty years since the SS Argentina of 1958.”
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Aside from the the three main deadlines in the T-Yard, there has persistently been another cut of locomotives next to the North Receiver. Mostly GPs and a B40 make up the "consist".
Small but hardy, this is one of the most northerly butterflies in the world, being recorded up to Greenland. It is common across the whole of Europe, and also occurs over large parts of North-America. Aside from native populations in the Arctic, some eastern populationsprobably resulted from an accidental introduction from Scandinavia during the colonial period.
Although not a migratory species, the Small Copper can readily colonize new territories in suitable habitat patches, in climatic conditions ranging from Mediterranean heat to arctic cold.
Ref. Butterflies of Britain and Europe by Tari Haahtela et al.
Back from my tour to Italy, scratches all over my arms due to spiky jungles which once were gorgeous gardens and more than a thousand kilometers in my back driving alone before sunrise, here I am loaded with pictures of abandoned places. I managed to visit 17 different abandoned places and I couldn't get into 4. This villa was my first.
Does this look like Oklahoma?
There's no siding on or near Chavez Siding Road, the only sidings on the Nogales are at Rico Rio and Santa Cruz which is north of Green Valley. Deceiving name aside the scenery through here is great, as the Sierrita Mountains provide a great backdrop for the Nogales, as it rolls out of one of the many small bends along the course of the seasonally dry Santa Cruz River.