Catalina State Park!

March 9, 2019March 9, 2019 / Ed Armstrong

I love the California poppies in Catalina State Park!

The mighty saguaro cactus are so impressive!

It was a wonderful day to visit Catalina State Park! I was fun to drive through Tucson and Oro Valley on the way to the state park. I have many wonderful memories from living in Oro Valley!

The poppies are everywhere! They are a wonderful way to welcome spring in Catalina State Park!

I especially love the orange poppies!

The flowers are so delicate and beautiful!

Beautiful!!

I also have many excellent memories of previous visits to Catalina State Park! I have hiked, camped, and ridden a horse in the state park. March is a fantastic month to visit! The flowers are blooming everywhere, and it is a very comfortable temperature.

I love the orange center and yellow outside colors of the poppies!!

The poppies began to close up as the temperatures started to cool off.

I like the contrast between the orange poppies and the while flowers!

These are gorgeous flowers!

I was especially enthralled with the blooming California poppies! I love the yellow and orange colors! I took many photos of all the blooming poppies!

I love the color of the poppies!

Awesome colors!

I also love the mighty saguaro cactus! Since I have been away from Tucson, it was very exciting to again see much massive and mighty cactus!

The saguaro cactus are so impressive!

There were many people in the park and all kinds of activities with different groups of people! Everyone was enjoying the wonderful weather and the beauty of the park.

These are very heavy limbs!!

I walked on the nature walk and loved taking pictures of such beauty. It was so wonderful to visit the park again after several years having moved away from Oro Valley.

I was mesmerized by the design of the spines on the saguaro cactus!

When I first arrived at the park, there was a display of different animals that lived in the area. A teenage girl asked me if I wanted to hold a gopher snake. At first I declined, but then I thought it would be a unique experience to hold it. She took a picture of me and laughed at my nervousness.

I do not like snakes, so I was amazed to find myself holding a gopher snake!

Enjoying Alabama!

February 19, 2016 / Ed Armstrong

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We are really roughing it at our RV park. It is the most beautiful RV park we have stayed in. There is a huge amount of space between sites. There is a small lake that is quite picturesque. The swimming pool and spa are spectacular. It will be sad to leave.

We are really “roughing it” in our RV park!

Since we have had seafood several times recently, we decided to try barbeque for dinner tonight. We found an Alabama chain restaurant and thoroughly enjoyed our meal. I had pulled pork and Charlene had ribs. We also had corn bread, grilled corn, and beans. It was wonderful!

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Sweet Home Alabama!

February 18, 2016 / Ed Armstrong

This shirt summarizes our fun time driving around the Alabama coast. The white sands are beautiful!

We are definitely in the Deep, Deep South! It is beautiful to see the white sand beaches around Mobile, Alabama. The beaches are very beautiful here. We drove up and down the beach, just enjoying the sites.

This was a wonderful restaurant in Foely, Alabama that had fantastic “southern” food. We loved it!

We looked for a local “southern” restaurant for our first meal in Alabama. We found a special gem. We ate fried okra, sweet potatoes, fried potatoes, macaroni and tomatoes, potato salad, fresh rolls, black eyed peas, mashed potatoes, chicken fried steak, and chicken and dumplings. I am not sure it would be possible to find a more “southern” restaurant anywhere in the south. It was wonderful food, but we could not finish it all. We needed two boxes for all the extra food. It was a fantastic restaurant to celebrate being in Alabama!