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myriam

AZ Thanksgiving

I had a really, really good time visiting family and friends in the Phoenix area for Thanksgiving. Pics in the responses.

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[ posted by myriam at 12/20/2005 09:37:10 AM ]
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myriam [email] said at 9:38 AM 12-20-2005:
crystal structure

It gets pretty cold up in the sky above the desert!

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myriam [email] said at 9:43 AM 12-20-2005:
saguaro mountain

Saguaros (apparently pronounced 'sa-huaro' or sawaro?) really DO grow everywhere! ...up until precisely 3500 feet (I think it was), at which point they abruptly cease to exist. It's pretty fascinating to cross that line. It takes forever for them to grow to that size in the pic (perhaps two humans high or so), and each saguaro is protected--you can't touch them, kill them, or even dig them up and move them home to your front yard, which is I guess what people were doing in droves before they passed that law.

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myriam [email] said at 9:50 AM 12-20-2005:
Prescott valley

My aunt and uncle live up on a high plateau north of Phoenix. It feels very western. Felt good to be under big open skies again, although the hills there are different from the big rolling types I'm used to in California: they're these bizarrely entrancing conical shapes that rise up at odd points straight from the flat plateau. This kind of makes them look like some great being above idly patted sand into a pile on a boring beach vacation and that's what Arizona got littering its backyard.

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myriam [email] said at 9:52 AM 12-20-2005:
the plateau

Lots of happy horses up there. We saw a lot of the speckeled kind whose name escapes me at the moment. Appaloosa?

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amanda [email] said at 12:11 AM 12-21-2005:
Appoloosas are the ones where only the hindquarters are speckled. They're dumb as hell.

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myriam [email] said at 9:53 AM 12-20-2005:

My cousins' fishin' hole.

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myriam [email] said at 9:54 AM 12-20-2005:
emily

My little cousin Emily. She loves to fish.

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jake [email] said at 12:17 PM 12-20-2005:
WHERE IS HER LOWER BODY???

Oh wait those are her knees.

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myriam [email] said at 9:55 AM 12-20-2005:
emmy and me

She also loves me. (sorry if this pic is hard to see.)

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myriam [email] said at 9:56 AM 12-20-2005:
hello, mr. saguaro!

yikes!

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cecil [email] said at 6:53 PM 12-24-2005:
sa-WOW-ro

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myriam [email] said at 9:58 AM 12-20-2005:
The Man.

Two more desert life forms.

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meredith [email] said at 11:08 AM 12-20-2005:
Craig? Is that you!

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myriam [email] said at 11:09 AM 12-20-2005:
He's The Man!

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cecil [email] said at 6:52 PM 12-24-2005:
how is Craig defying gravity there? is his center of gravity in his ankles?

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kiche [email] said at 11:09 AM 12-20-2005:
where is this?

is this arizona state university?

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myriam [email] said at 11:21 AM 12-20-2005:
Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright's desert school of architecture. It still operates with a decent amount of students and has an intriguing pedagogy.

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myriam [email] said at 11:22 AM 12-20-2005:
It's in Scottsdale

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jake [email] said at 12:16 PM 12-20-2005:
NPR last week had a report that both schools were not bringing in the money or enrollment they needed?

Or maybe that was a couple of years ago and they're turning the corner?

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cecil [email] said at 6:55 PM 12-24-2005:
You claim to "visit friends" in other states, but really you just want to see their Frank, right?

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myriam [email] said at 7:09 PM 12-24-2005:
hehehehehehehehehehehe

this was my 3rd FLW building visited in the 3rd city with the 3rd Killogger... TOTALLY COINCIDENTAL

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myriam [email] said at 10:00 AM 12-20-2005:
YES

I also got to fly a plane! Here I am at 7500 feet, about 6100 feet above the desert, flying over mountains and streams and things. My wonderful cousin Pat has a Cessna and took me up for my second time. We practiced some tight turns and he showed me a stall, too. He left me fly for a good chunk of the time between tak-off and landing, about an hour on my part. It was... simply... amazing. Oh, pure love!

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cecil [email] said at 6:49 PM 12-24-2005:
yeah right, that could be ANYONE in that pic... oh wait... yeah, that IS you. Cool!

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myriam [email] said at 10:01 AM 12-20-2005:
river

Flying over a river and a reservoir.

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myriam [email] said at 10:03 AM 12-20-2005:
hooray!

My face ached the rest of the day from grinning for two hours straight.

After this, we had lunch, then I got on a jet and went home! All in all, one of the very best vacations I've ever had!

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meredith [email] said at 10:25 AM 12-20-2005:
I love the desert. If New Mexico had a theatre scene, that's where I would live.

Also, WHERE ARE PICS OF CRAIG?

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myriam [email] said at 11:03 AM 12-20-2005:
look again!

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craig [email] said at 11:42 AM 12-20-2005:
Where's the one of Kelly and I?

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myriam [email] said at 11:50 AM 12-20-2005:
It's coming. I wanted to check with you first to make sure she didn't mind being splashed on a webpage. :)

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myriam [email] said at 11:51 AM 12-20-2005:
'Cause you know, this site is a premiere internet destination

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craig [email] said at 11:51 AM 12-20-2005:
Nah it's cool.

Also, it was so good to see you again. Kelly thought you were really cool. And she wants to go shopping with you in NYC.

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jake [email] said at 12:19 PM 12-20-2005:
These are great photos. The cactus and fishing hole especially...

The one of the windmill scares me because windmills scare me even when they're small and in the distance.

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amanda [email] said at 12:16 AM 12-21-2005:
My favourite photo instructor ever once told my class that the light in AZ and the light in Australia were the most amazing he's ever seen. The only time I've seen AZ was post-sunset or in the complete dark, but these photos make me want to go there and shoot oodles of colour film.

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myriam [email] said at 7:19 PM 12-21-2005:
I'll tell you what I learned: it's really fucking hard to shoot pics outside at 1pm in the desert. The light is simply too bright for my poor digicam. Make sure you've got a good light meter on whatever camera you head out there with, that's for sure.

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myriam [email] said at 3:30 PM 12-20-2005:
I have some more of desert plant life (cacti, trees with green bark, etc) if anyone is interested. Also, for the record, the sunset pic is entirely untouched. Actually almost all of these are.

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cousin daniel said at 8:11 PM 12-20-2005:
arizona, never heard of it, did they just invent it?

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