Life Goes On....

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

Just down from Ajo....

They have two drives you can do....we choose the Mountain Drive...

An interesting road...

This is the Organ Pipe Cactus....

The area is full of almost every Cactus...it is the Sonora Desert ...

On this road trip we got right into the Mountains...

It was beautiful.... I could post lots of pictures.... but I'll stop with this...

We did do a hike...

And those of you who follow all time know...there is one of us who always looks down on our hikes...

He had to keep his finds small...

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Ajo

Ajo is being rejuvenated by the Arts.

Projects include everything from building renovations, arts activities as seen above, to community gardens,

The Curley School has been renovated and now houses Artisan's who want to have some time to 'work'. We saw one of the apartments and they are beautiful!!

They have a Conference Center that has four large multipurpose meeting rooms, a commercial catering kitchen, beautiful courtyard dining area, access to an adjacent indoor/outdoor performance venue and auditorium, clay studio, woodworking shop, gardens, and ample outdoor workspace. The Conference Center can accommodate groups from 10 to 250 for events, with space for up to 60 overnight guests.

We stayed in one of those rooms and we were impressed....Classrooms made into 'hotel room's

Hopefully they will market 'The Arts" well and the town will grow!

Monday, January 2, 2017

Road Trip...

We went on a little road trip to Ajo ... a once thriving Copper Mine Town.... now turning to the Arts....

It is a quaint place....The Plaza...here they hold weekly Farmer's Markets with produce from their many Community Gardens, Art Shows and more!

Adobe style buildings, which I like so much!!...

The mine.. is as deep as the Empire State Building is high... The Lookout Tower was closed, because of the holiday...so I had to take pictures between fence wires...