The Grand Canyon & Around Phoenix

During my trip to Arizona, we spent a day at the Grand Canyon. This was my 2nd visit and I have seen .002% of the whole beautiful place. 

Photos don't even begin to described the beauty and size of the canyon! 

We walked paths for several hours and of course I took some pictures. I'm not one of these people who walks to the very edge and take photos so you won't be viewing edge pictures on this blog.

Just so you know, Blogger won't let me rearrange the pictures in order. 

There were elk wondering around the trails. They weren't afraid of people at all. We saw a large group dozing in the shade of some trees.

Another wonderful photo of the canyon.

There were a lot of this kind of tree blooming in Phoenix. They smelled so sweet!

Now we're back to the canyon again.

The elk just wondered around and ignored the people. We didn't try to pet them. I didn't see anyone try it but I wouldn't be surprised if some people do.

Here are some random pictures of flowers around Phoenix. The above picture is something blooming. I think my daughter said it was Agave but I don't remember for sure. Bougainvillea is still blooming. 

And another picture of the canyon.

My daughter had a work event she needed to attend in Flagstaff on Friday.  

We did visit one fabric store in Flagstaff on Thursday evening, Odegaard's Sewing Center.

A very nice store but $15/yard for fabric was out of  my price range. They had a wonderful selection of native fabrics but I wasn't going to pay that much for any kind of fabric.

I found some treasures on the marked down shelf that were more my price range.

I took all the fabric that was on the bolt of the autumn leaf fabric and a yard of the green/gold fabric. One third yard of the red was purchased for a future quilt project that uses a variety of reds. Red is one fabric I don't have a lot of. Are you surprised I didn't buy any blue fabrics? There weren't any on the marked down shelf.

Odegard's wasn't downtown with the other stores so we stopped there on our way into Flagstaff. We spent the night at an inn. While she attended her event, I played tourist.

I'm not a very good tourist. I browsed through a lot of stores. I had a lovely lunch at Collin's Pub but mostly I enjoyed myself by sitting on a bench by the old train station soaking up the sunshine and rays. I will say though, if you get to Flagstaff, you need to buy some ice cream at the Sweet Shoppe Candy Store. I'm not the ice cream fanatic my husband is but I do enjoy ice cream when the temperature is in the 80's. 

I go for a lot of walks when I'm in Phoenix. I like to walk along the canal and view the painted privacy walls.

I didn't remember this painting from when I visited in December. Just now, looking at the photo, I see the artist signed 2022 under her name so it wasn't there in December.

* * * * Update, my daughter has sharper eyes than I do. She says the date is 2021 so it was there in December. Oh well. It's still pretty!

I don't know what kind of bird this is beside the cactus flowers. I bet it sings a lovely song this time of year.

Linking to To Do Tuesday, Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, Put Your Foot Down, Stitch Sew & Show,  Needle & Thread Thursday