Happy St. Patrick's Day

Yesterday we made the trip for Las Cruces to Scottsdale as per plan. We took the northern route on Hwy 70 and through Globe Az vs. going down around Tuscon as the GPS (Tom Tom) wanted to do. It was a scenic drive through NM and Az desert and the best part of the drive was over and down the mountains from Globe for about 20 miles towards Phoenix. This area has some very steep rock lined canyons and curvy road way. Further down towards the valley the desert and hills are very green now from all the rain they recently had. Very lush looking for the desert area.

Today Al and Jean took us over to Fountain Hills the home of a very large fountain. Today they had a special display an noon for St. Patrick's Day. See the photo to see what they did.

The weather was very nice today. We had clear blue skys, a fairly strong breeze and and about 85 deg. top today. We are showing some red color from being out in the sun generating that vitamin D today.



This is the fountain in the center of a 28 acre lake in Fountain Hills. It has a 560 foot tall plume that can be seen from a long distance. We were right on the edge of the lake to observe it today.

We will be in the good care of Al and Jean up until Sun am when we head for San Diego so do not expect many updates for a while.