Happy Birthday America!

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This flag hangs in the John Slaughter house museum. It has 48 hand sewn stars and was put together just after Arizona became a state.

I hope that everyone has a wonderful and safe 4th of July!

Not so still water

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Yesterday I mentioned the pond out at the John Slaughter Ranch, so of course today here is a picture of it. Reading through the information about the ranch, it is a spring fed pond. The day that I was out there the winds in Arizona were gusting to say the very least of what they were doing, so the pond was not still at all. One whole side of the pond has benches, picnic tables, lots of large trees and soft grass for sitting and enjoying a calm day.

I hope that the week is going well for everyone, and I will be back tomorrow with some more pictures.

Mindless Monday

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Still using pictures from my trip a couple of weeks ago. If you ever find yourself out in Arizona, or if you live in Arizona already, the trip down to Douglas and the John Slaughter Ranch is worth the time spent on the sixteen mile gravel road. The house and the buildings around are open as museum, and are filled with time period things. There are old fort ruins up the hill from the main house, and views of the mountains in all directions. There is also a beautiful pond to do picnic lunches by, and the best part...real green grass! The soft makes you want to take your shoes off and walk through type. Not the course, risk getting sticky burrs in your feet type that is found just about everywhere in Arizona. The ranch is about as far south in Arizona as you can go and still be on the U.S. side of the border. When you are standing near the visitors center you can look to the right and see the fence that is maybe 600 feet from where you are standing, that is the border. There is a farm with cows just on the other side. If you make the climb up to the old fort ruins you can watch the cars driving along highway 2 in Mexico.
The entire ranch is beautiful and quite a surprising change from the desert look that you see as you travel on the road to get out to it.

I still have more picture of the area to post, and hopefully will be able to that this week. I hope that everyone has a good Monday, and that there is a week of just being busy enough a head of us all.

The John Slaughter Ranch

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