The train

I should have posted this pic first, anyhow, this is one of the trains that used to run between Chicago and Los Angeles before Amtrak. I remember as a kid getting on the train in Rock Springs and riding to California to visit my sister. Sorry about the date stamp on the pic, I was fooling around with the menu and got the time stamp activated. Got it off finally... Supposed to get some much needed rain the next couple of days.

Globe Az

Had a great time riding a train around Globe Arizona today, went with a bunch of folks from the RV park. We were on the train two hours and had a great meal served like they did 40 years ago. The scenery wasn't all that great but had lots of fun. Our meal was comped to us because they bumped us on the 11:30 run and we had to sit and wait around till 2:30. The folks from the train station did a guided tour of downtown Globe Arizona and an old territorial jail etc. The picture of course, is inside the dome car of the train.

Name that bird

I thought this was a roadrunner at first but it's too small and doesn't have a crown on it's head. It's not a Grackle, I'm thinking it might be a slimmer version of a cactus wren?? Went with cousins from Nebraska today to South mountain park south of Phoenix then to lunch downtown Phoenix. Great day!!

Weavers' needle

There's weaver's needle way off in the distance. Took this yesterday from our hike near Superior Arizona. I post a lot of these on my facebook page so if you look at both of them don't think that I keep re-posting the same picture.

An old car

This vehicle has seen better days, on the trail in to where we hiked today. Probably an old gold miner's transportation???

Picinpaugh hill

A famous mountain during a battle between Mexico and U.S. years ago. In the shaded area of the mountain you can see a "man made" slit that runs parallell to the hill. The mexicans hauled big guns up into that "slit" and held the high ground during the war. I'm only quoting the hike leader today, not sure when the war was or what they were battling about, the picture above this one is an old gold mine that goes into the hill. That mine shaft all man built went back into the hill for a long ways. Trip today was about 5 miles round trip and wasn't terribly streneous. This area is near Superior Arizona about 12 miles southeast of Apache junction.