When the guys aren't around, we women get wicked...and we find things we can't live without. 2015

Some out-of-this-world salmon cooked by Mike Ashmore. Lordy, it was good!

Sometimes your friends cause you to do silly things...even if you're not particularly a silly person. Now that's friendship!

After a pedi

We wrote "Hi, Julie," in the snow, but it's not very legible. 2015

Our collection of sand dollars

Someone told us there was a new wood pile at the South Ramp.

Waving to Mikey even though we can't see him down there waving back.

I told my besties not to have any fun while I was gone, which, I suppose, was a little selfish on my part. But they knew it was spoken in jest, as is their act in this photo. They weren't fooling me. I just told them they look like those sad puppies in the adopt - a - puppy infomercials. Happy Birthday, Carol!

It wasn't always peaches and cream, but we got through it.

 

forever gathering treasures

At Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix 2016

At the Grand Canyon's South Rim 2016

So here we are at the Grand Canyon, and these two are admiring their jewelry!!!!

I'm pretty sure there's a person attached to those legs...

On Submarine Rock, Sedona

Relaxed in our cool seats at AMC Arrowhead, ready to watch Sally Field in "Hello, My Name Is Doris." 2016

Climbing Submarine Rock in Sedona

Can anyone explain why Julie gets TWO cups???

The first year of stashing our treasures in the desert for the summer 2016

Karen and I visited Organ Pipe Cactus Natl Monument...here's our campsite. Thanks, Steve, for the tent. We're happy the wind didn't carry it away. 2016

Sometimes our friend Karen can have a good time all by herself!!

Really??? When the sign said "End of Trail" ... what part of that didn't we understand???

Our fearless leader 2016

Thanks, Karen, for the birthday apple pie!!

For as long as we're all friends, there will be more pictures. Check back in the fall when once again we meet up for yet another season of happy gatherings and good times.

These are not all my photos. They''re a collection from the gang. If anyone has any of the gang that you want posted, send them to me. I'll add them. Thanks

Here's a link to the Pleasant Harbor RV Resort page.

Meeting in Hillsboro, Oregon, for a day of Canasta 2016

Russ and Caroline Pomahac were visitors to Pleasant Harbor when the majority of us today didn't even know it existed. I met them when they wintered in the Rosette for a few winters before they decided not to return. They live on Pender Island in British Columbia, and I visited them in the fall while traveling B.C. It was good seeing them again. 2016

We have a blast collecting treasures from the desert floor, but much of it is returned when we all leave in the spring.

It was a pleasant January day when seven of us masked hikers took a ride into the desert to search for rocks. We build cairns with them to add a little something special each to our own outdoor space. A cairn is a stack of rocks, sometimes pyramid shaped, sometimes not. Each cairn takes on its own characteristics, some tilted, some straight. Doesn't matter as long as they stay stacked.

Originally, cairns were built by game hunters to mark the direction of a herd. The top rock was pointed in shape and aimed in the direction the herd could be found. In modern days, they are constructed on many hiking trails to mark the path. For us, however, it's just the fun of finding and stacking the rocks ...whimsical yard ornaments that satisfy our need for an outdoor activity. 2021

Stopping for lunch!

Rut ro. I think someone sat on a cactus thorn.

This is the first load...before we made it over to the rock pile.

They're with us in spirit.

It never fails: We always find something in the wash we absolutely cannot live without.

Often we head out into the desert in the buggies in search of the burros. We find some most of the time. These are NOT them, however.

The Morgan City Wash hike is one of our favorites because it's so different from any of the others. It starts out on the Beardsley Trail, but then ventures off into a nearby canyon. From that point it gets very interesting. You no longer feel like you're in the desert. A stream runs parallel to the trail, offering the soothing sound of trickling water. Despite the overgrowth, the trail is well marked and maintained.

Petroglyphs at White Tank Mtns, on the Waterfall Trail

Shot from the hip!!!

This is only part of the group that started out on this hike on the White Tank Mtns Black Rock Long Loop. Before we even started out, Gretchen fell and had to stay back. Debi stayed with her. The Black Rock Long Loop turns into the latter part of the Waterfall Trail, so it's a perfect 3-mile (approx.) hike. The next 8 pictures were taken on this hike.

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One of several dangers when roaming the desert is the "teddy bear" cholla so named for its seemingly innocent furry look from a distance. But it's other name is "jumping cholla" because it attaches to anything that comes in close contact. In this case, this gal passed to0 close to one, and it attached to her jacket. As anyone would instinctivly do, she brushed it away. Now stuck in two places in her fingers, the only way to get it out is to pull it out with tweezers, pliers or some other such device. All we had this day was a plastic fork. We got the cholla out, but it truly is extremely painful because of the fishing hook- type thorns. I think a lesson was learned this day.