This week has been very cloudy. But we wanted to have a last picnic at Madera Canyon.
My favorite picnic spot. close to the stream at the top of the Park
I love finding water in the creek. Imagine this path with song birds chirping and the water tumbling along the rocks.
Large rocks along the path
A pass in between the ridges
This is the front of a lovely B&B
Here's the view from the path behind
This bridge leads to patio space behind the building. The creek runs under the bridge. You can see how the building is really tucked into the side of the hill.
The patio behind the B&B
Looking up
Ancient tree holding on through floods and rock slides.
Now we're at the bottom of the Park at the Proctor, White House trail. Early settlers
Remnant of an adobe wall. The same creek after traveling down the canyon.
It never flooded the fire road before.
And off the tumbling water goes beyond what we can see.
Lots of green
An explanation of those incredible mountains, canyon formations, and my favorite creek Last sunset.....................
I think I caught a rainbow.
I hear the snow has melted in Kenosha. Time to head home.
Only 2 days left in Arizona. But I wanted to post the rest of the pictures from this great museum in Phoenix. It is well designed with headphones that add audio to each exhibits' video explanation and excerpts of music played by the instruments. Wander around with us. There is much to see, listen to and learn.
Special Exhibit - Drums around the world
This huge gallery has exhibits from well known musicians. It was great to hear some of their music.
This military green piano is called the G.I Victory Piano
Jim and I tried playing one of these in the demonstration gallery. I can't imagine how anyone can play music on this thing.
"This Old Guitar"
Mechanized 'dance Organ
It was amazing to see the drums, accordions, saxophones, marimbas play!!
And even more amazing to see that the mechanism is played by these paper pages
We didn't spend too much time here. There are many harps, drums, and other percussion instruments that everyone can play.
We only had time for 1/2 of this exhibit and will have to come back for Europe, Asia and he rest of the world.
Time to head back to Green Valley. We'll have to come back next year.
