Ruins, Prescott, Jewish Cowboy Painter

Montezuma was NOT here, and yet his is the name given.

Tuzigoot tops a hill in green River Verde valley,

looking at Jerome, a mining town glued to the steep hills to the left in the distance, while the hot sun burns down.

Man Of Acoma-Bronze

Prescott National Forest ascends and descends via s bend curves to Phippen Museum featuring Kenneth Freeman, the so-called cowboy artist in a special showing.
And granite boulders

 and back to the Red Rocks of Sedona..

Finally..

Hockey schedules will be posted this afternoon and trip planning can start.

Meanwhile here are just a few pix from last trip, starting with the COLD NIGHT on Sante Fe Operahill,

Thunderclouds and rain curtain over Opera Hill

Fat Man and Little Boy Atomic Museum, Albuquerque

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Pink Jeep among Red Rocks

Chapel of the Holy Cross Sedona and

Red Rocks in a Pink jeep

spectacular...more personal photos later.What words to use?
Rattling down rocks, steep enough that the jeep looked standing on his 'nose', but the views and the smell of nature (cedars, pine, pinon) made it all an unforgettable 2 hours.
Even though ,after, a visit to a chiropractor might have been beneficial... LOL.
Lucky it had rained buckets (again we got rained at) the night before, to lay the dust, and lucky we were the lead jeep..let them eat dust that drove behind us, eh!
But the bone rattling, teeth jarring trip was worth every blasted minute of it, all at 1 or less miles per hour!
The afternoon was spent investigating some places in Sedona,as in the very modern Chapel on or rather IN the rocks, built by a former Austrian, Marguerite Staude, looking out over the scenery in lofty splendor.
Regretfully outdone  by an ostentatious edifice (I'm told a forty million one) built by the man who discovered eye lasers or some such. Modeled indubitably after a Venetian Palazzo including formal gardens; at least those were xerisphere ones, not wasting the precious water of the desert. 
Locals tell me they still cannot fathom how in the world this person side stepped the rigid building codes in the village. Just shows big money does not equal big aesthetic sentiments, alas!