Slideshow Index: Green Valley

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• Out for a bike ride in 70 degree weather
• The white area is a gypsum mine in the Santa Ritas
• Arnie on his bike
• A neighbor snapped the two of us
• Chuck and Karen Kleinstueber came down from Mesa for a visit
• Watching TV after the table game
• Feb 11th - Snow at the Golden Valley Library
• Snow at 0530pm
• Looking out our bedroom window
• Looking across the street at the Santa Rita Mountains
• Our cactus garden out front
• Nothing like a beer after tennis
• Valentine's day balloon, candy, and roses
• Kathy with Bea & Jack McGilvrey (Anoka)
• Mexican supper at Florentinos
• Tucson Gem Show (cell phone snapshot)
• Another view at the Convention Center
• We have a nice trail on the other side of the Arroyo (ravine)
• Arnie on the trail
• A good sized prickly-pear cactus
• There are many variations like this purple variety
• Looking east on the trail
• A variety of cholla cactus
• A pear-shaped prickly-pear cactus
• These cacti are the favorite food of the javelinas (peccarys) in the neighborhood
• The spindly ocatilla cactus
• An agave cactus in the foreground
• Unusual cactus
• This is our neighborhood sign
• Street names are definitely spanish in origin
• Kathy getting a birthday greeting
• Picking up Kathy's birthday cake (Feb 23rd)
• Daughter-in-law Chris ordered this for her
• Birthday girl at the entrance to "Grill on the Green"
• This is one of Green Valley's best restaurants
• Love the view at this golf course restaurant
• Charlotte Clark (Plymouth) and her sister Cindy
• Charlotte and Cindy came over for a visit after church
• Naturally, we wanted to share the birthday cake
• Kathy with birthday present hand towels
• Bob & Pam Geiger (Plymouth) came down for a three day visit
• We went for the cake again
• Arnie with birthday cake
• Bob & Pam were visiting other friends in Phoenix and drove down
• Out for a walk on March 1st
• The barrel cacti are starting to bloom
• On the ravine trail
• Another variety of prickly-pear cactus
• These are the jumping cholla cactus
• The agave cactus is used to make tequila
• Neat tree formation
• Heading back through a park trail
• Panoramic view of the trail, ravine, and mountains
• Kathy with my cousin Don and his wife Karen (Indianapolis)
• Sunset looking west along Calle de Emilia
• A morning dove on our back patio wall
• Waiting for drop-in tennis at the Desert Hills Rec Center
• Lots of good, friendly, tennis players here
• There are four courts at Desert Hills
• Looking west from the shelter
• Getting set to go on court one
• Looking at courts two, three, and four
• Monday group lessons at Desert Hills
• Four top-flight volunteer instructors provide lessons twice a week here
• March 18th at the Senior Games at the West Center
• Ready for a match on court five
• Kathy and other viewers at the West Center
• Pastor Martin Overson (Desert Hills Lutheran Church)
• Our back patio
• A nice plump quail posing for Kathy
• Two quail on the wall
• A roadrunner at the Desert Hills Casitas