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| Betty and Bill take a spring vacation in Arizona Mar/Apr 2003 Click on thumbnail for larger view of picture |
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 Tucson saguaro cacti "rise and shine" on a beautiful morning on Loews Ventana Canyon hotel resort grounds in the foothills of the Catalina Mountains. |
 A feast for the ears as well as the eyes is offered on the grounds of the resort. On this morning, I grabbed a cup of coffee and a camera and went for a stroll to listen to the birds, the rushing waterfall, and the rustling stream. |
 Everything was coming up roses, er, daiisies, along the resort trails on a beautiful sunny morning. |
 The cowgirls gather at the wild west corral |
 The fitness tral that meandered along the golf course. Half way along the course we stopped for iced tea on a patio overlooking bird feeders and watched a panoply of rainbow-feathered creatures flit around the desert oasis. |
 Bill's dream retirement home on the 16th green |
 A flower among flowers |
 The swimming pool by day. We used it at night, after a game of tennis, when no one else was around. Also by the pool was a hot tub, as well as a "cold plunge" fed by unheated water cascading from a small waterfall. A real sensory potpourri for the body. |
 The waterfall at Loews Ventana Canyon resort |
 Cherie, Bill, and Betty stop in front of the waterfall on the grounds of the resort |
 The family took a tour of the copper mines of southern Arizona to see how the ore was extracted from the earth. |
 Cherie and Nancy are ready to roll through a portion of the thousands of miles of tunnels that lace through the Mule Mountains of Bisbee. |