St. Louis-Olathe-Kansas City-Manhattan

Geocaching!

My newest of things to do is Geocaching. This is a decent intro to geocaching for the uninitiated.

I think its a great way to get people outdoors, giving some purpose for those who need one. The first one was pretty simple, but the feeling of having found the log was special.

I am curious to see how many from this list of 31 places, I can knock down before November!

Also see: Geocaching - The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site

Clinton State Park, Lawrence, KS

Coldplay on my bday

Sunset Crater, Flagstaff

Frustration

Source

4th of July Fireworks at the Tempe Town Lake

The fireworks lasted for about a 45 minutes, this is toward the finish..



Now the pictures...

South Mountain - Brush Fire

A lighting sparked off a wild brush fire at the Gila river Indian Reservation - this place is a little west of my home and I went up South Mountain (which is pretty much my backyard) to see the smoke rising from that wild fire. The fire has now been burning for about 3 days and is likely to continue for a few days more - as there are no settlements around it, it is a low priority here! 1200 acres burnt so far!!




View the complete story with the video of the fire here

Sunset at Tempe Butte

Cactus in Bloom

Trip down under - Tucson!

Its Mid-May!

This is what is looks like in my backyard now. This is Phoenix, Arizona. Its not often that you get to see anything other than the clear blue sky. So when you see clouds as dark as these, it just seems so unearthly!! Its refreshing nevertheless. Something is royally screwed though. Day before, Flagstaff got 8 inches of snow. And two days after it rains here. This is mid May in Arizona, people!! .. Ah there I can see Al Gore - grinning, saying told you so!