Arizona Days

I spent a wonderfully relaxing two weeks in Arizona.  We shared Easter with our friends and their friends, played euchre almost every night, laughed a lot and ate entirely too much.  The thermometer hit 99F the day before we left and then I came home to discover that there is still snow and our high today is expected to be 3C. 

One highlight of our trip was a visit to Tombstone, the site of the infamous gunfight at the OK Corral.  Growing up, I watched all the Western series on TV with my dad, so I loved seeing the re-enactment, the Bird Cage Theatre (also casino and bordello), and Boot Hill Cemetery.  

 

Closer to Tucson, we toured Biosphere 2 where in the 90s a team lived for two years in sealed conditions, practising for space.  Today the facility is used as a huge research lab where every aspect of soil and weather can be controlled.

 

 We were fortunate to be in Phoenix at the same time as the Dale Chihuly glass exhibit at the Desert Botanical Gardens, one of my favorite places anyway.  There were so many fantastic, extravagant pieces that it's impossible to pick a favorite.  Even the simplest were beautiful. 

 

 

There was knitting in the down time.  I knit a pair of booties while I was there, the multicolored ones on the left, then gave the pattern to my friend and she knit the blue/gray ones on the right.  The cool pot is made by man living in Superior, Arizona.

 

I finished my daughter's long overdue Jaywalker socks in a Kaffe Fasset colorway.  I love Regia wool the most, and have admired Fasset's color sense since his first book, so this yarn is perfect IMHO.

 

Also, I knit a knitting bag for my sister's birthday.  The pattern is from Berroco Bags 2 and the yarn is some Red Heart Cotton Twist from the stash.  The handles are vintage, discovered in my mother-in-law's basement after she passed.

There was also stash enhancement; three knitting shops, all different, all worthwhile.  But you'll have to wait for the next post to see.

Comments

[freshisle]

Such a tease!
I would love to see Tombstone. What a great trip.