The week started with Dave, Sue, and I going to the University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography. I had learned of the museum from a presentation at photo club by a former president of the University. He was a founder of the Museum. The current exhibit was “The Jazz Loft Project: William Eugene Smith 1957 – 1965 . You can see more here.
Latter in the week the four of us took a bike ride up the Santa Cruise river for several miles.
On Friday we decided to got to Wilcox, AZ for the Wings over Wilcox event. This is where the Sandhill Cranes spend the winter feeding. At the visitor center the informed us that the best time to see them arriving in number was to be at White Water Wash between 4 and 5:30. We decided to take Chirichua National Monument since it was on our way sort of. What a pleasant surprise! When we think of Monuments the thoughts are of more museums rather than parks. We all agreed that this was a place to return to. The pictures should give you and idea. The first picture was along the highway on the way to the Monument.
From here it was over to Whitewater Wash to see the Cranes. The problem was they had already arrived and were too far away to get good pictures. I
A more complete set of pictures can be found at https://plus.google.com/photos/115188712460885370534/albums/5835938308745842017.
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