May 13-18, 2019 Meteor Crater, Arizona

We are both still sick as dogs with nasty colds. Been laying around coughing and blowing our noses. The weather has been beautiful 70-low 80's, sunny. Sometimes I go out and lay in my lawn chair and cough and blow my nose.

Have not been missing sunset tho. Sunset last night and sunset tonight. 

Another of tonight. Seems kind of whimsical-a dancing cloud. I finished this cute little basket today. The center is a white polished beach rock. I used black dyed needles and white threat. The beads are glass. It is 7 x 2 inches. 

The clouds set up perfect for sunset, but there must be too many at the horizon, this is all we got tonight. I must be getting better, today I discovered that the RV park is in the middle of a huge field of purple phacelia. 

Sunset in the phacelia. While I was out there the security guard from the RV park came out and told me guests are not allowed out there. The owners don't want people picking up pieces of the meteor. He was very nice and pointed out where I could walk around.There are also lots of other flowers too. Desert stars, globe mallow, prickly pear, evening primrose and a yellow flower. It has been really windy so it is hard to get the flowers to hold still so I can take their photos. 

Moon on the flagpole behind the bus and sunset.

We returned to the land of the living today! We drove to Winslow, Arizona to check it out. First John took me to lunch at the Relic Road brewing company. Ends up it is not a brewery yet, they are waiting for some city approval, but they have all Arizona craft beer. Here is John with big IPA. We stopped at the Standing on the Corner Park, commeratiing the song 'Taking it Easy' written by Jackson Browne and famously recorded by the Eagles.

This is the Falling Meteor sculpture in beautiful downtown historic Winslow. Our next stop was the La Posada. It was the last and most elegant of the great Fred Harvey Hotels built in 1930 by the Santa Fe Railroad. It was designed by Mary Coulter-perhaps the greatest architect of the Southwest-as a fabulous hacienda. Coulter is famous for her magnificent buildings at the Grand Canyon, but La Posada is her favorite. When route 66 was bypassed and people quit riding trains  La Posada closed in 1957. In 1960 the Sante Fe railway gutted it and turned into offices. In 1993 they the railways moved out. They were going to tear it down, but in 1997 it was bought and has been restored. 

Some of the inside of La Posada. It is very beautiful. 

John took this of me at the garden gate of La Posada. Welcome to Winslow, it is on historic Route 66. On the way into Winslow we passed Meteor City. Looks like a close curio shop. It has a geodesic dome with a mohawk. 

Both the Standing on a corner park and La Posada are route 66 attractions. On tow other corners of the same intersection are the Standing on the Corner gift shops. The worlds smallest church is on route 66, and the batman house. Sunset tonight looked like the recreations of the meteor landing we saw at the crater.  

The almost full moon rose red through the clouds tonight.