14 Mar - Visit from Cousin Gloria

My cousin Gloria flew down from the Seattle area for a week in the Arizona sun! :-) We'd been planning it for months. Her first morning here, Steve and I took her for a hike out in the desert, near the Superstition Mountains. We also stopped at the tiny tourist town of Goldfield and got a feel for the old West. Her second day the three of us drove south, to Tubac, a little artsy town just a half hour from the Mexico border. We stopped at the beautiful white San Xavier del Bac Mission on the way. We ate on the patio of a Mexican restaurant, with a view of the mountains in the distance, that gave you a feel for being in Mexico. We had fun exploring some of the over-200 shops and galleries in Tubac.

The next day Gloria and I toured Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesen West in Scottsdale. We were both inspired. He was such a genius, ahead of his time. So many of his architectural concepts became the essence of American architecture.