Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Photo Round-Up 4 (Arizona)
Ah, yes... Arizona...
Mission bells
The Big A (university of Arizona football team logo built onto a local hill)
Chilis drying in the sun
Fountain in Tucson (at our hotel)
Visiting the San Xavier Mission
Our swimming pool view (for when it's too hot to do anything but swim)
Desert sky
Will the real Jesus please stand up? (Caution: moving statues)
The artists' colony at Tubac
Boot Hill justice, circa 1882
Shootout at the OK Corral (every 2 hours, $ 10 admission)
The Mission again
All the saints (Mission interior)
"mortuus sanctus"
Did you know? The Mission features a replica of a dead saint in a glass coffin with a wooden head on a hinge (that's him under the white sheet at the bottom). The faithful come to offer him prayers and money (which they pin to his clothes). They then try to lift his head up and only the pure of heart are supposed to be able to move it. I tried and it wouldn't budge, but a little old women lifted it up like at was a feather. It's all in the wrist, I suppose! (plus it helps to believe)
Roman Catholic saints + Jesuit priests + slightly weird Spanish-influenced art = the San Xavier Mission
I think we're almost done with the photo round-ups now. Watch this space for the end of Carrick to Calgary and the birth of something completely Different....
