LAST WEEK ALREADY

Yes, time to head north.  We plan to leave here this Friday.   Finally, this week, now that we are about to leave, the weather is going to get up to seasonal norms.  I think this has been the coldest, windiest and wettest winter we have had in our twelve years coming south!  The wind is still with us but the temperatures are supposed to get up to the mid 80s this week.
RV club friends from Vancouver Island, Bev and Dan, have wintered in Mesa and we got together with them a few times.  We took them on a road trip last Saturday exploring some of the back roads to the southeast of Florence.  We took a picnic lunch and enjoyed a peaceful drive.  Very few other vehicles out there and the flowers were coming on nicely.
This week will be hectic as is usual for our last week in the park.  Properties have been selling quickly this year and several of our friends have decided to give up their winter homes mostly due to age or health issues.  Tonight is our last ATV club potluck.  Today is probably my last club ride of the season.  Aileen and I hope to get out once more before we put the RZR to bed for the summer.

Aileen was thrilled to see this Desert Tortoise up close and personal.  She had been wanting to see one for years and suddenly here was one in front of us.

American Kestrel

Unknown flower

Good year for poppies

This little guy was chowing down on this poppy

Poppy field

Male Phainopepla

Some of our desert scenery

Along Barkerville Rd SE of Florence, AZ

Poppies

Lupine

Scorpionweed with lupines in front

Poppies

Poppies

Ray Mine

Ray Copper Mine

Can you see the monster loader and truck?

Poppies

Lupines and poppies

Whitlow Ranch Rd

Lupines

Poppies

Poppies