Beautiful Fall Weather

After a summer of excessive heat, the weather has been beautiful here. Last winter, I showed the lakes with whitecaps.....now the air is clear and crisp and the water is calm. These pictures are from my morning walk along the bike path. Such a lovely place to live!

Bisbee

Bisbee is a city in southern Arizona just north of the Mexico border. It was founded as a copper, gold and silver mining town in 1880.
Today, the historic city of Bisbee is known as "Old Bisbee" and is home to a thriving downtown cultural scene. The town is very hilly and very quirky. We recently visited and stayed at the Copper Queen Hotel.
One morning we had breakfast at the Bisbee Breakfast Club and came upon the town of Lowell, a mining town incorporated into Bisbee in the early 1900s. Visiting Erie Street is like walking along a movie set. The town looks like it could have been abandoned in a hurry and forgotten for half a century. Rusting cars and trucks sit deserted along the street. The population in the town is 3! It was great fun and talked to a gentleman who ran a motorcycle shop there.....he is one of the 3.

Kartchner Caverns State Park

In November 1974, Gary Tenen and Randy Tufts were exploring the limestone hills at the eastern base of the Whetstone Mountains. They were looking for a cave no one had ever found and boy, did they find it. It was kept a secret until they told the property owners in 1978.
Late in 1984, they met with the Arizona State Parks office and it eventually became the Karchner Caverns State Park.
We toured the Big Room which is half of a mile long and takes an hour and 45 minutes to complete. It is an amazing place!