Ask yourself....

Captured in Silver City, New Mexico

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
Ayn Rand

Hi my friends,
I hope you all stay warm and protected from the cold temperatures we have just now! Yesterday I wore the first time my winter coat and the warm closed shoes - no flip-flops anymore :)) But, for weekend it should be warmer again, the weather man says that - I hope he will be right!

I know, Christmas is just around the corner - kids can barely wait and we adults have still so much to do, we are busy like crazy with running around for the right gift. Take some time in between your rushes to relax, enjoy good music or read that book you've always wanted to read. Well.. o.k. I sound like a life coach now... I will stop my preaching... You know the best, what's good for you, right? :))

Happy Holidays.
~Susanne


And, if you're still searching for THAT special gift, I have the answer:

@ http://tinyurl.com/yatdh5x (Susanne's Photography on FAA)

@ http://tinyurl.com/2wf9qsh (my Calendars 2011 and my Fine Art Photos)

@ http://tinyurl.com/2bsfvk9 (mygall Germany Kalender 2011 +meine Fine Art Fotos)

@ http://tinyurl.com/37ckddf (MyFineArt Photos + David's paintings)

@ http://tinyurl.com/37jkbtz (David's Fine Art Paintings on FAA)

Good bye New Mexico - Hello Arizona

We left Silver City and drove down the hills towards Lordsburg and took the highway towards Arizona. In the pictures are the Cupper mines of Tyron to see.

This is how it looks out in the desert: long straight roads for miles to go and mountains, mountains, all over you can see!

Tuscon in Arizona cannot be to far away - only 173 miles or something like that... :))

We stopped by a ghost town named STEIN - it was closed because of to many ghost activities...LOL... it was not open for the public anymore

And this is how STEIN looks - old buildings and ruins that have seen better times

But the UNION PACIFIC train is still around and searching his way up the hills - very slowly

Soon after STEIN we crossed the state line to Arizona. I always wanted to see this beautiful "Grand Canyon State"

Pretty soon also the landscape started to change the colors to big red rocky formations

I'm fascinated with cactus flowers and cactus plants. You will see more of them in my coming next photos, visiting some National Parks and the heart of the desert of Arizona

If they are blooming red cactus....

...or yellow cactus flowers - they are all magnificent for me!

We arrived in Tuscon Arizona and outside of the city we have found a great place to spend the night: on the parking lot of the Desert Diamond Casino which is owned by Tohono O'odham Indian tribe. And of course, YES, we went to the Casino - and YES, we did some gamblings - and NO, we didn't won....LOL... we lost a little bit of our pocket money :)).... no problems, maybe next time we will be more lucky!


Hi my friends

Thank you very much for all your nice comments and compliments to my post about Silver City. Yes it was a nice experience for both of us to visit that hill town in New Mexico, close to the Arizona border. And the ride to Arizona was pretty too. Arizona is a very nice state and there is a lot to see also. We will visit probably Sedona, AZ on our way back coming from Las Vegas, some when in summer or so...

Tomorrow I will show you some photos from a very great and exciting place in the heart of the desert and up in the hills. We slept there in one of the big Sate Parks and I have captured for you a mountain sunset. So stay tuned!

Looking forward to your comments and see you soon!

Susanne and David

Silver City - A Colorful & Arty Town

View of the Main Street in Down Town - I loved this little hill town!

I don't know if this is the City Hall, I'm not sure

A pretty catholic church - in pink

Impressive sign for a music shop in Down Town - do you recognize all the musicians?

This mural looks good also with the cars in the front! :)

Indian - Mexican style deco on a private house wall

I'm sure if we would have spent more time in this pretty town, we would have discovered many more of this nice murals, like this one.

In the arty and gallery quarter was a coffee house - and some people enjoyed outside the warming spring time sun

Around the corner of the same coffee house were more inviting benches to sit down

A bunch of dried hot, red chili peppers - it makes a nice decoration on every wall!

In front of a gallery was this wonderful painted bench with New Mexico subject

Allover town you can see these tiles on walls, on steps or just in the paved board walks - what a wonderful idea!

Pretty view into a window

Cactus flowers

It's springtime also in Silver City at almost 6000 feet high in the mountains of New Mexico!!!

Hi my friends,

Thank you so much for all the wonderful comments and compliments to my last post! I'm behind with my postings a little bit.... but please stay tuned and have patience - my problems were again the Internet-connection.

I will have much more pictures to show you, beautiful pictures of landscapes we drove trough and places we have visited, everything was so overwhelming for me - I have to admit again and once more and I think it will be not the last time: this country is just surprisingly BEAUTIFUL - and endless BIG! :))

Susanne and David