Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Unfortunately we must return to Arizona. It has been beautiful weather and we expect another beautiful day for driving home.
But to our surprise, Tuesday morning we saw................
This is Jessica's back porch! An easy 6 inches of snow and coming down pretty good.
It is amazing how thick the snow is piled on the branches of this tree in Jessica's back yard.
This is not fog it is snowing heavy. We are on the main road headed out of town. We heard that the roads between Los Alamos and Santa Fe are being cleared.
Both the pictures above and below as Tic is driving.
As we reached the divide of the road going up the main hill or going to Santa Fe. There are 3 roads heading up the big hill to Los Alamos. Jessica lives at the bottom of the main hill about 3 miles from this intersection.
The above 5 pictures were all taken before we got to Santa Fe. The snow is beautiful!!!
We are almost to Santa Fe and the streets are mostly just wet. By the time we got to the south side of Santa Fe there was not hardly any snow.
This is between Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Look no snow!
Here we are headed west on I-40. It is snowing again. Crazy!
Here we are headed south of Grants.
The following 5 pictures show are taken at the Overlook looking at the mountains near the El Malpais South of Grants.
Our drive took us up and down from elevation ranging between 5200 feet in Albuquerque to 7500+ feet 3 times along the drive to Superior, AZ.
These 2 mounds in the middle of these grass fields are interesting. Why are they there????
These grasslands are really beautiful!
Here we are looking back on our travels up to "The Top of the World". I don't think we are quite to the top yet, but close.
We are back in Desert Gardens in time to see this stunning sunset. See below also.
It has been some day. We started out in freezing weather with 6 inches of snow and arrived in Desert Gardens at 72 degrees with several major elevations changes along the route. Los Alamos is 7500 ft elevation and Desert Gardens is at approx 1500 ft elevation.
Wednesday - Monday, February 17-23, 2016
OMG our grandson Rux is so handsome! This post is just pictures of Rux taken during the week we were there.
Our beautiful daughter with her 2 babies, Rux and Maggie, were resting on the couch when we arrived.
Rux did wear this outfit 2 times. I dressed him the second time. We gave Rux this outfit and I made the booties.
We are getting ready to go for a walk. It will be his first time in his stroller.
Rux got this Carolina Panthers hat to wear while he "watched" the Super Bowl game. It's almost too small already.
Even Granpa Tic got in on the act.
Rux was sleeping on the floor. The couch was creating shade. As the sun got higher in the sky, Rux ended up in the sun.
Next time I checked on him, I found him like this. I guess the sun was too bright. What a precious bundle!
Rux is so fun to snuggle with!
Look at those cheeks. He is filling out.
We left town on his 4 week birthday. 7 days later, Rux had his 1 month check up. He weighed 8 lbs 3 ozs and 21 inches long. He was 6 lbs 4 ozs and 18.5 inches long. That means he gained nearly 2 lbs and 2.5 inches in length. He's going to be a big boy!
Tuesday, February 17, 2016
Our new grandson is now 3 weeks old. Nana, Dusty, needs a fix. We are headed back to Los Alamos for a visit.
We took a route that took us through Superior and on to Globe. Between Superior and Globe we went through a very scenic drive.
We had to stop and take pictures along our route. This river picture was so pretty. Too bad it was into the sun.
You can see the road from a spot called "The Top of the World".
Can you see the bridge in the middle of the picture? We came down the windy road on the left side of the picture, crossed the bridge, then up the road on the right side of the picture.
Here is a closeup of the bridge.
This view is from the Becker Butte Lookout looking up the canyon into the sun.
This is also from Becker Butte Lookout looking downstream. Wow this was a beautiful stop.
This is the road we will be taking once we leave the Becker Butte Lookout.
We stopped in Show Low for fuel. This was the Visitors Center just across the street from the gas station. Great looking building!
We drove through miles and miles of grass fields. We are headed to the El Malpais National Monument.
After we got into New Mexico, Tic could see Mount Taylor. It was still a very long ways away.
Suddenly these mountains/hill started appearing. Very interesting color variances.
The formations are very interesting.
Then there was a turnout for a "Natural Arch". We hiked a short distance and here is the arch.
Here is the arch from a distance.
These rocks are just bulging out and are colored different.
This closeup of the arch is magnificent. We were not allowed to get any closer.
The limestone walls had lots of character.
This little rock was on the pathway to the arch.
We thought this looked like guardians standing watch.
Time to get back in the car. We still have 2.5 to 3 hours to go.
Here we are headed towards Grants.
No more exciting pictures. We arrived after 9 hours of driving. Even though it was such a beautiful drive, we were glad to get there.
