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Published: September 9th 2014
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Photos from this day We were in time for the 9:30 show at the Biosphere. As stated many times in other parts of the Stories Of The Photos, this isn't a good place to learn about things like the history of place, the textbook stuff on flora and fauna, and, in this case, the story of the Biosphere. Here you can learn about things like our guide boasting of having special birds within the enclosure, and how Jakub was the one to find the little critter and point it out to the group. So that’s all I got on the Biosphere part.
Mount Lemmon was Yvonne’s suggestion. You may have noticed that one of Jakub’s best suggestions was to follow Yvonne’s suggestion whenever she had one. It was a long, winding road to the top, and we made many stops along the way to slowly soak in the visual variations of height as we climbed. The afternoon light was harsh, especially trying to capture the hazy distance without any shade, but the view was outstanding and the feeling was uplifting. We stopped at the Sawmill Run Restaurant for a pleasant dinner on the deck where Jakub suggested we might still make it
back to Saguaro for a final attempt at
the shot.
We were in 2 cars but parked together. At one point we either left or lost the Edge while searching for the right cactus. I found many that
would have been right if the sunset occurred in the East. After exhausting all of the maybe-over-theres, we decided to get back on the road that would eventually lead us out –and hopefully before the gate was locked. We could see several more maybe-over-theres just ahead, but unfortunately were following a family that really enjoyed the darkness at an incredibly slow pace. Maybe they were sharing ghost stories and the slowness increased the scare, but imagine how much scarier it would have been for them if they would have kindly pulled over to let the 6 cars behind them pass. Finally they pulled into a lot on the left, not to be kind and share the road, but apparently that was where their story was going. We found Jakub and Yvonne at the same spot. None of us had much success at the shot (see my last attempts in the last 3 photos in the gallery), but we all had a great
time. Although we weren’t flying home for 2 days, the fact that this was our last night together on this trip was weighing on our mood. You know, when you want to hug them until their eyes pop out, but you must remain dignified as we all were taught. As always seemed to happen at the appropriate time, Jakub had a suggestion. There might yet be one more over-there on our way out. We stopped and he tried. The ranger that pulled in to hurry us along so he could lock the gate behind us probably wouldn’t have been so understanding as the road-crew foreman that coaxed us out of the Cholla Garden.
Well, in some stories they ride off into the sunset, but in this one we write off the sunset shot. We shook and hugged each other, then took our own trails home.
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