We then grabbed a philly cheese steak and lemonade ($16.00! no wonder they didn't post prices!). I managed to kill some time playing around with different settings on the camera until Three Dog Night began their concert.
I called this one ghost riders!
I've heard of a cash cow, but never a cash monkey!
One afternoon we went to Scottsdale to watch the Cincinnati Reds play the Colorado Rockies. The stadium was a lot like the Dayton Dragons field, and we had great seats, right behind home plate. I get a little bored with baseball, but fortunately the home plate umpire had a nice butt, and the man next to me had an iPad. I thought the only people that controlled their home with an iPad were the ones in the commercials, but he was showing me not only can he control the lights and temperature, but he can view his security cams, etc.
$6 water??? Give me a break!
Look! Its Sponge Bob, Square Head!!
One afternoon we explored a Mesa city park, and the downtown district of Tempe, and had a nice lunch at a place called House of Tricks.
Some cute signs in downtown Tempe
Courtyard lunch at the House of Tricks
Pretty flowers in Riverview Park
A huge climbing tower in Riverview Park in Mesa
A pretty train stop in downtown Tempe
The splash park at Riverview Park
More pretty flowers
Over the weekend we went to a fine art show in Scottsdale, and I can tell you, it was AMAZING! By far the best art show we've been to on this trip. The art was amazing, as was the location, with beautiful flowers and fountains and, gasp! green grass! Haven't seen that in a while!
All made from BOTTLE CAPS! Check out his work
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A lot of her jewelry is made from cut up kids lunchboxes!
A lot of her jewelry is made from cut up kids lunchboxes!
It was colorful!
Gorgeous flowers and fountains
This looks just like my mom's flower beds used to look!
I had foxglove growing in my garden at "home"
These kaleidoscopes by Henry Bergeson were AMAZING!!
Mushroom bounce house anyone?
They had the cutest artsy playground for kids
sculpture in the park
pretty flowers everywhere!
Those intricate designs are all seed beads! Yowza!
Our librarian friends should appreciate this guys work. I want
one of those "typewriters" bad! Look closely at what they are made from!
lunch in Scottsdale at a Mexican place with a cool ceiling
The art fest park bordered the Scottsdale library, so you know we went inside!
The entry to the children's area
The children's room,
an entire book and magazine shop inside the library! They don't
just throw their books into the recycling like the Dayton MetroLibrary does!
They even have stained glass windows in their library
A special area just for teens
I've been doing some artwork of my own - learning "scratchboard art". It is white paper coated in clay and black ink and you create an image "scratching" away the black. This was my first project:
My third project I wanted to do a Gamble Quail, so working from this photo:
Its really fun - I think I will stick with it. I've also been making some jewelry and taking in a few special orders from the guys in the lapidary class cutting their own local stones.
These are real quail - too fast to take a good picture!
On the way home from the art festival, we saw an eagle in a dead tree, fairly close to the road. We quickly made a U-turn and found she (he?) had a nest nearby with two nearly grown babies! So exciting, and my pictures turned out great! I know what picture is getting printed onto canvas and will hang in my next living room!!
And as always, I keep snapping pictures of the gorgeous sunsets!
