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Having left the 7561 in Charlotte, BLOL7591 becomes the leader LHF. The former Northern Pacific GP9 and the trailing GP38-2, formerly a T&P GP35, are nearing the end of their northbound trip as they approach Collum via picturesque Illinois farmland.
Wrapping up my Southern Arizona Adventure 2024 with a visit to Amerind Foundation and Texas Canyon. This is stage 9 of 9.
This is a view from the trail looking basically southeast across the valley. The clouds are starting to get ominous. It did rain.
www.amerind.org/texascanyonnaturepreserve/
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Texas Canyon is a striking natural area located in Cochise County, southeastern Arizona, along Interstate 10 between Benson and Willcox. It is renowned for its dramatic landscape, characterized by massive granite boulders scattered across the desert terrain, creating a rugged and picturesque environment.
The granite boulders in Texas Canyon were formed through millions of years of erosion and weathering. These formations, often precariously balanced, provide a unique and photogenic sight, making the canyon a popular stop for travelers and photographers.
The area is surrounded by the Chiricahua Mountains to the south and other nearby ranges, offering expansive views of the Sonoran Desert with its mix of desert vegetation, including cacti and mesquite trees. The light, especially at sunrise and sunset, enhances the golden hues of the rocks, adding to the area's charm.
Texas Canyon has a rich history tied to the Chiricahua Apache people, who once roamed these lands. Later, it became home to early settlers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Canyon
Texas Canyon is a valley in Cochise County, Arizona,[1] about 20 miles east of Benson on Interstate 10. Lying between the Little Dragoon Mountains to the north and the Dragoon Mountains to the south and known for its giant granite boulders, the canyon attracts rockhounds and photographers.
www.arizonahighways.com/article/texas-canyon-nature-preserve
The giant granite boulders along Interstate 10 in Southeastern Arizona have been gracing postcards for decades, but that otherworldly landscape was always off-limits to the general public. Not anymore. Thanks to the Amerind Foundation, 6 miles of trails in the brand-new Texas Canyon Nature Preserve are now available to those who want a closer look.
By Suzanne Wright
Zipping past Texas Canyon, an hour southeast of Tucson, it's impossible not to notice the boulders - giant, eye-catching piles of granite, like something out of The Flintstones. But other than providing scenery along Interstate 10 - particularly at a rest area just down the highway from the kitschy attraction known as The Thing - the area has long been off-limits to curious travelers who wanted to stretch their legs and get a closer look.
There are several private landowners in Texas Canyon, including Triangle T Guest Ranch, which has some trails for its guests. But none had opened its trails to the public until this past October, when the portion of the area owned and managed by the Amerind Foundation had its ribbon-cutting. After a multi-year campaign that raised $250,000, the Texas Canyon Nature Preserve - on land previously closed to the public for 85 years, and where the organization's founding family raised quarter horses until 1968 - is open to all.
The idea had been percolating with the Amerind Foundation board and management for years, says Eric Kaldahl, the president, CEO and chief curator of the foundation. The response from the surrounding community has been very enthusiastic. We welcomed more visitors last October than we've seen for the past 10 years.
The preserve, located just off I-10 between Benson and Willcox, is part of a 1,900-acre campus that includes the Amerind Museum. More than 6 miles of trails wind past balanced rocks, fantastical shapes and rocky spires in open, sun-warmed high-desert grasslands studded with cactuses, wildflowers and trees. The trail is self-guided, although Kaldahl hopes to offer guided sunrise and sunset hikes in the next year. Visitors can pay a $12 admission fee for just the trails or $20 to visit both the trails and the museum.
Trail designer Sirena Rana knows the landscape can look intimidating, but she purposely designed the trails to be perfect little morsels. Rana didn't grow up hiking, so she aimed to make the trails a comfortable experience for all ages and abilities. There are no steep elevation gains, and dirt, rather than gravel, makes for more stability. And Rana recalls walking for miles and miles over several months to understand the land and ensure the trails were constructed to shed water, limit erosion and provide firebreaks.
Texas Canyon is one of the most unique landscapes in the Southwest, formed by millions of years of wind and rain weathering the granite, she says, likening it to Joshua Tree National Park and the Wilderness of Rock on Mount Lemmon. It's very unusual that it's right off a major interstate and just an hour from a major metropolitan area, she adds. This is one of the greatest outdoor sculpture gardens in the world designed by Mother Nature. I'm so pleased with how it turned out.
Elsewhere along the trail, signage reflects the Amerind Museum's mission of fostering knowledge and understanding of Indigenous peoples. Acknowledging that these are ancestral lands, the signs feature O'odham, English and Spanish text, in that order â and Kaldahl hopes to add Apache, too.
Additionally, Indigenous people have collected basket-weaving materials from these lands for generations, and they remain free to access the grounds.
Haiku Thoughts:
Stone giants whisper,
Texas Canyon's quiet grace,
Time's hand carves the sky.
Southern Arizona Adventure 2024
Due to lack of planning on the part of his parents, my son's birthday is three days before Christmas. I often put his gifts under the Christmas tree ahead of time making sure that the birthday gifts are differentiated from the Christmas gifts by their wrappings.
For the All New Scavenger Hunt #1 - Wrapping.
After working the Pureland Industrial Complex for a couple of hours, the SMS crew is about to end their day as they park their train at the SMS shops.
An eastbound grain train glides down and around the small town of Matewan West Virginia on the Pocahontas District and right by one of many abandoned branch lines along the route.
This spider was approaching the wasp caught in it's web, The wasp was still alive as the spider started to wrap its sticky lines around it.
I bought myself a bag from Jeanne Oliver. It came wrapped like this. I didnt want to even open because it was so pretty. But, I did and I love the bag too :)
here is the link to the bag messenger bag
Happy Thursday xoxo
“Geschenkverpackungsmaterial.“
Auswahlfoto:
Für“Smile on Saturday“
Thema:“Gift Wrapping Material“!!!
😄Happy Smile on Saturday😄for all of stay healthy.
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created from a scan of some wrapping paper from Big Lots. Photoshopped, using layers and tweaks, including the 'amazing circle' distortion, featured here:
Collection of tracing wheels from my greatgrandparents, grandparents, parents and me.
Kopierräder, Schnittradler-, Teigradlersammlung: Urgroßeltern, Großeltern, Eltern, ich.
Uhura (Star Trek) - Uhu (owl) = Ra (sun god, hierolyphe: sun)
Uhudler (austrian wine) - uhu = dler
Ra + dler = Radler
German Radler = English: cyclist, knee-length leggings, tracing wheel, beer + lemonade,
Radler: Schnittradler (Kopierrad) Teigradler, knielange Hose, Radfahrer, Bier + Zitronenlimonade
recycling, upcycling the wrapping of the advent calender
Buchstabenrechnen auf dem Karton, Teil der Verpackung des Adventkalenders.
Part of: "an apple a day keeps the doctor away - An ENSO (Japanese: circle, Japanisch: Kreis) a day .... " Aktion Kreis Tagebuch A circle diary - Start of the 365-days Project: 1. September // An Exercise: Fools Tower ~ Narrenturm, eine Übung I asked for learning - he does not find it worth the effort to answer
DMC-G2 - P1870811 - 2015-01-05
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I like to dig out all the random ribbons and papers etc when I wrap gifts. It brings out the Martha Stewart in me. This gift is wrapped in lots of tissue paper, crepe paper and then ribbon I have had forever and a glittered deer. It is almost a shame to unwrap it!
.....time to start wrapping as I listen to Christmas music.
For the All New Scavenger Hunt #1 Wrapping
Hello :)
Have a nice new month!
Yes, I have certainly not forgotten about you, still time is really runing fast here and the renovation project is taking longer than planned.
At the same time the internet connection at my parents' apartment 44 where I'm staying is as slow as it could be & it is often failing. So, it is quite common that there cannot even be a mail sent or a tweet made. It's an area problem the technician said and it might take some time. Oh well...
Anyway, there's hardly anytime for being online, as apart from the official project for which I came, there are dear friends to meet up with, some of them also having a little of decoration projects of their own to be considered!...wishing for time to be enough...
On the other hand, I really miss flickring, still in only a couple of days I'll be able to do so again :)
Till then, have come to say hello and wish you a good month, while sharing a couple of pictures (as it takes ages for them to get uploaded!) from the recent packing of some presents and orders for friends.
I hope that tonight the internet connection will be better and I'll manage to do a couple of things on line.
If not, still am sending you all the warmest of wishes and hoping that you are all doing as fine as it can get!
Take care my dear friends,
Ivy ~ xoxo
After the final Train of Lights special of 2024 wrapped up, preparations for returning the carriages for regular service began.
Once all passengers had left the train at Lakeside the NGG pulled the empty carriages back to Gembrook. There, the lighting equipment, the controllers, and the kilometres of cabling will be removed and stored ready for the 2025 season.
En route to Gembrook, the NGG and its train of carriages are captured at Cockatoo station and lit up with three off-camera flashes.