Jon Carroll, a San Francisco Chronicle columnist, expresses so well — if a bit cynically — some of my fears about mixing religion and government. Please read his March 1, 2012 column My little missive to Rick Santorum. Hopefully it will help all of us to raise our voices in favor of tolerance, and to demand a government and society based on understanding each other as individual human beings.
Monthly Archives: March 2012
HDR at Mt Lemmon
We were delighted to see trees, water, and, yes, even snow on our visit to Mount Lemmon today. About an hour north of Tucson, the Catalina Highway winds 26 miles through Coronado National Forest, climbing about 6,000 feet up the Santa Catalina Mountains to the village of Summerhaven atop Mt. Lemmon at 9,100 feet. Ski Valley, the southernmost ski destination in the USA, was closed for lack of snow, but we enjoyed a chat with the caretaker who cheerfully filled us in. The big story was the Aspen Fire of 2003 which destroyed over 90% of the area’s buildings, leaving only 20 residents today compared to some 2000 before the fire. Touring with friends Terry and Sue is always fun, and pizza at The Cookie Cabin was great. You can see some of the pretty vistas in the 12-02-29 Mt Lemmon album.
Continuing my HDR experiment (see previous post), I made several images that, as seen in the side-by-side comparisons below, Read on
One last hike
March warmth and last fall’s rains have popped lots of flowers up in the desert, as we found on our final hike through Saguaro National Park (West). The Hugh Norris Trail provided Susi a spot to paint while Sue, Terry and I walked a couple of miles and gained several hundred feet for some impressive vistas. Pictures are in the 12-03-07 Saguaro West album.
Villageaires
The 12-03-03 RCW Villageaires album contains pix of the chorus’s concert 100 Years of Broadway. Susi sang the final solo, which was from There’s No Business Like Show Business.