Arizona Idyll

Friend Dyer Lytle went on a trip and took some pictures. He writes:

Over the Labor Day weekend I drove up to Springerville, AZ to take a look around and to try my hand at making some panoramic images of the landscape. The area has gotten quite a bit of rain in August and the fields are green and the wild flowers blooming.



I photographed near Springerville and Eager, up near the Sunrise ski resort area, and along the road to and at the trailhead of the Mount Baldy trail. Mount Baldy is where the headwaters of the Little Colorado river are and the trail near the base of the mountain follows the river and is a beautiful place.









Also, there is a fairly new wildlife area managed by Arizona Game and Fish called the "Sipe White Mountain Wildlife Area" south of Springerville along route 191. It is about 10 years old and features a restored ranch house that once belonged to the Sipe family and is now a museum. I didn't see any large wildlife there but they had quite a few hummingbird feeders hanging out on the porch and these were surrounded by swarms of hummingbirds. I took a few photos of them.