I love traveling, nature of the beast in me I guess. But it felt so good to shower in my shower last night and wake up this morning in my bed. Of course I woke up Arizona time which meant I was two hours behind before I even got out of bed.
Heck with it, we're still on vacation, right?
I feel a little guilty about stopping the photographing when the opportunities for great photos was at it's peak. I think I was just a little barn sour, headed home, nose down, tard, as they say.
We took the scenic route home. In Prescott Valley if I had only pulled off the road we could have taken some absolutely (twenty time zoom on that Sony) spectacular photos of antelope grazing and watching commuters. We also had a similar chance in New Mexico but I didn't, pure laziness.
Then there was the times when I'd had to have been wearing the camera and had an eyelass control for the shutter. Like when the big black boar crossed the road in front of us in west Texas. Just about daylight yesterday morning he came across the highway. A good barbwire fence on each side of the highway and he went through them like grass through a goose.
Just before that there was this one tree for this one moment in profile on this one hill this one morning's sunrise. It was one of those things where your mind grasps it and then just wallows in the sight for quite awhile. It was spectacular.
We decided to take the Wickenburg through Yarnell route to Prescott. To give you an idea of the road they have a sixty foot vehicle combination limit due to the grade and curves. Outside of Yarnell, Prescott side we came upon this wonderful five rail pipe fence replacing the barbwire one put up by the state.
We came up over a hill and there at the bottom of the next valley was a crew working on the fence. I picked up the hammer from Lucy's go button. Miss Glenda just shook her head as I pulled off the road onto a driveway of sorts and then back across country to visit with the crew.
He's seventy. She's sixty two. Most times they have their son working with them but he's a helicopter mechanic part time and that day was one of those part time days. They've been building fence for a corporation since 1996. That's what they do. If the weather is permissable they're out building pipe fence. She cuts and fits. He welds. They attibute their good health to working outside and enjoying what they do.
There is a crew that digs the holes and sets the posts. Then him and her cut in and weld up the rails. The crew then comes back and cleans--grinds the welds and paints the fence.
This particular section was put in temporary because a widening of the culvert was planned. They were in the process of cutting it out when we came upon them.
Some people are just lucky at certain things. I happen to be lucky at finding characters. This pair to draw to was super special. Being part of a pair that works well I really appreciate seeing other couples that work well together. We hit it off with them like we were separated at birth. It was two hours of exchanging ideas, tips, and contacts. We left them feeling like we'd been blessed one more time.
