Saturday, March 12, 2011

Road Trip to Lake Pleasant

Tomie came home from college last night for Spring break and this morning she and Paula left for their vacation home in Mexico.  Tom has spent this week at some off-road races in Baja and will return Sunday night.  That left Phil and Elsie along with Bob and I at the "compound".

Phil and Elsie planned to visit some friends at Lake Pleasant today and invited us to come along since we'd not been there.  It was a beautiful day again and a nice day for a drive.  Upon leaving the city, we drove through the desert and saw all shapes and sizes of Saguaro cactus.  This cactus is commonly seen in desert pictures.
The average saguaro has about 5 arms and is about 30 feet tall.  They usually grow arms after they are 15 feet tall which is at about 75 years old.  The biggest saguaro's are 50 feet tall with 50 arms and are 200 years old! I wonder how old the saguaro is above?

We stopped at the visitor's center also.  Here are some saguaro's with no arms yet - they must be young ones!

We returned home and Bob and Phil played cribbage while Elsie and I talked and enjoyed the wonderful weather.  Such a relaxing day; let's have some more of these!

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