Easter Sunday at the Lookout (cross post from GD)

[DemoTex]

Moonlight and Tucson lights: 3AM


Easter Sunrise Service @ the Lookout


Early Morning Alidade


The Big Picture


The High and the Mighty

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Wonderful pictures, my dear DemoTex!

Truly spectacular.

I think you will have a great time this season, taking pictures here.

[jaysunb]

2. I'm really enjoying YOUR adventure. :) n/t

[Sherman A1]

3. Great pics

and I really like the accommodations. Nice bedside lamp and desk.

[mnhtnbb]

4. What a view!

Guess that's the whole idea.

Do you provide your own furnishings?

[DemoTex]

9. The bed is a USFS built-in w/drawers .. very comfortable, too.

Most of the rest of the furnishings represent years of different lookouts adding to the little 15X15 room. Stuff gets thrown out; stuff gets added. I bought a cheap microwave oven for the Oregon lookout, used it five seasons ($10/season), and left it. I bought a $69 microwave last week at Target for this Arizona lookout. It will remain here when I leave.
I also bought the cotton rugs and bedspread at World Market last week. The rugs will be throw-away filthy by the end of the season (costs more to have them washed at a laundry than they are worth). I'll leave the bedspread. I absolutely HAVE to have some color and decent decor, so I spend a little extra on that.
Where I usually spend the most to make my lookout comfortable is on kitchen utensils. You would not believe the crappy can openers, knives, wisks, and - fer godsake - CORKSCREWS I find. Got to have a good wine opener!

[Skittles]

5. these pics are such treats

I always enjoy them

[handmade34]

6. Love your photos

and nice to know your watching out for us!

[liberal N proud]

7. I bet the noise from the motorcycles on the streets is terrible

Looks like a great place to get away from it all and still get paid.

[DemoTex]

10. Motorcycles, no; it's the damn garbage trucks at 5:30 AM that I can't abide!

Just like Manhattan. Noise, noise, noise. But it does cover the sounds of the wilderness, thank goodness: the sounds of silence, as S&G so aptly described in the mid-1960s.

Seriously, I am in the wilderness (Pusch RidgeWilderness/Wilderness of Rocks). It is wonderful.

[passiveporcupine]

8. I wish I had a bed with a view like that.

That is just awesome! And the bed looks pretty comfy too.

Do they let you have a dog up there?

[DemoTex]

11. Dogs are fine, but sweet Nick is too old for this.

Gawd, I miss Nick-Nick!


Slick Quick Nick's Lick Trick

[passiveporcupine]

12. OMG He's adorable