SchlegelRock

We had a very nice time in Arizona.  It was nice to finally see Mark and Markaa’s house and meet Markaa’s family.  They even have two dogs that the kids kind of got used to by the end of our trip.  My favorite part of AZ is the cacti.  I love to go up and feel the spines of a cactus.  I love how some of them are blunt and some of them are ridiculously sharp.  I even found one that releases it’s spines into your finger if you touch it.  Luckily they were easy to pull out but could you imagine falling into one of those.  Really any of them.  The cacti aren’t enough to make me want to move to AZ but I felt like a little kid playing with them.

I also found two flowers that I thought were absolutely beautiful.  One of them I’ve seen in CA before so I know I could plant it in my own home but the other I’ve never seen.  I don’t know the names of either of them so if anyone knows let me know.  I used the call the first ones whirlygigs.  But I just can’t see that being their real name.

I can not tell you how happy I was to get home to cool Sunnyvale.  Still warm enough to wear shorts but cool enough to tickle your legs and arms with the breeze.  I have never been so grateful for green grass and trees on every lot.  I was walking around just marveling at the beauty.  I love green.  Love, love, love it.  It just goes to show there’s a climate and location for everyone.  Mark and Markaa found theirs and Scott and I were born into ours.  What a beautiful world we live in that you can find a place that’s right for you.

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