I headed out to Phoenix for a workshop…I stayed a couple of extra days. I had only seen Phoenix from the air before this…and wow, I love the desert! And Phoenix! (now, it could be that it was almost 80 degrees and it was 20 when I left Virginia) There were so many kinds of cacti. I drove on parts of the Apache Trail and then took a jeep ride with Dusty Bottoms into the desert, where I got to eat a cactus, a teddy bear cactus to be exact. He burned the spines and then cut the cactus in half…Dusty said that this is what the Native Americans ate to get vitamin C, twice as much as an orange. It was kinda slimy and tasted like a cucumber. And who knew there was desert mistletoe!! I saw one of the most beautiful sunsets ever over the city of Phoenix. And met some amazing women photographers!!
