I was rather ho-hum about going to the Boyce-Thompson arboretum. I think of it as a garden of trees, and I'd just as soon explore a trail in the woods without paying the admission fee. So I used Ginger as an excuse to drop Susan off, and go scout our camp site for the evening. Well, that only took 6 minutes, and Susan sent me a text saying that dogs are allowed to go in the arboretum. I checked my attitude, and thought it would be best to go on in. It was great, a huge property with a gazillion different types of cactus and desert plants. I even learned that a lot of what we refer to as cactus, are not, rather succulents. As an example, the agave plant is not a cactus, even with the thorns and thick "leaves". It was great, and we were able to spend more time than planned. We didn't get stuck :)

There were a lot of birds enjoying the trees, so we spent considerable effort spotting them- no I don't remember which ones we saw, aside from the humming bird…….

The road from Globe to Superior is only about 30 miles, but as luck would have it, it was closed for construction causing a 70 mile detour past some vast, enormous, mountain sized open pit mines. I spotted a few billboards touting the new technology used for a greener copper. "less water used means more for nature and our communities" or something like that. Would that be "greenwashing" or just "misleading"? Funny, I didn't think to photograph the mines….

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