On Monday 9 October we returned to Mesa for a few more days with Grandmother Boynton. She suggested that I might enjoy walking at the Riparian Preserve, so on Tuesday before sunrise, I headed south to Gilbert. The preserve consists of a number of large ponds that are filled with clean (post waste treatment) effluent. Gilberts water supply is a deep underground lake and these ponds allow the water to filter down through the earth and replenish the supply. The ponds are rotated so the algae can't build up and stop the filtration, so not all the ponds have water at once. The place is quite wild and natural and at the early morning hour was cool and beautiful. It actually put me in mind of the London Wetland Centre. The name, Riparian Preserve, makes me smile a little because of Hyacinth Bucket's riparian entertainments. Tuesday night Kim arranged for the extended family to meet for a final summer picnic. It was dark by 6:00 PM, but very pleasant. Wednesday evening we took Grandmother to the Angry Crab for a bucket of shrimp and crab legs.
Riparian Preserve
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The Superstitions at sunrise
This is the view from the Gilbert Library
Desert-scape
The sun touched the prickly pear cactus
The color looks quite different without the sun
A wonderful tunnel of trees
Heron? Crane? Someone knows, just not I
Connor with Kyle and his fiancee, Ashlyn Nichols
Shrimp and crab's legs
We left Mesa on Thursday 12 October and are now enjoying California. There will be more, but this is all for now.
OXO
D.
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Fun to see a pic of Kyle's fiance.
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