we went to an area on the road to cholla bay to shop. i had never been there.


a cool painted clay cobra i saw


the jetta


edificio municipal.


sam at our favorite place to eat, mary's cocleteria.
(special note to somakitty: see that building in the background? it's the one that was photographed on that thread you linked me to on yH. it's the point restaraunt.)


a new business in rocky point: santana's coffee!! instead of the starbucks girl, it's pancho villa in the logo!!! me and tam underneath the sign.

dinner the first night.


it was sam's parents' 60th birthday celebration. the group project was to come up with 60 gifts! here they are, opening.


4 generations and their women.
great grandpa sam, grandpa sam and grandma jane, tia tam, mama, daddy, and the boys.


dinner the second night


sam's parents, sam and jane. 60th birthday.


chelsea lozar.


me and tam, drunk on margaritas.


on the way back to phoenix.

first, the obligatory windmill pic:

on the 10, near palm springs. through the windshield.



tucson is the most beautiful city in the world. i want to stop my life for a year and take pictures of it. i want to take pictures of everything.



it was very cloudy and moody. all of these pictures were taken in a moving car.



we saw our friend muriel and her kids. i am usually with her in mexico, but not this time. we hooked up for a short time and let the kids play. i miss her so terribly. she was the witness at our wedding. my best girl. she is looking good lately. it's the tucson sun glow.







god, can i just live in this house please??!!



more moody desert.

i was taking pictures like crazy and i wanted to stop so many times on the way from tucson to rocky point. it is amazingly scenic, and then with the clouds and rain, it was just sensory overload for me. i wanted to stop every 2 miles, oh! and i sw a cross on the road that had a circle of WATERMELON around it. i freaked out but we didn't turn around. there wasn't a place to and it was on the res. so no pictures of that, but we did get to stop at a shrine in mexico that i have always wanted to photograph.

that part's next.

like i said, i have always wanted to stop here. it is a small one room building on the road to rocky point, somewhere between sonoyta and puerto penasco, mexico.




the inside

there is an amazing amount of development happening in rocky point. huge 200+ unit condo projects are going up all up and down the sandy beach area.



see the construction on both sides?






here we are on the other side of the point from where i usually stay w muriel.


on the way down to the beach. my hair is super fro.




my cute aquarius boy, so thoughtful.


hats freshly knitted! the small one by tia tam, the big one by me.


"it's not cold! really!"



the view from the second floor condo balcony.