Three Cars and Yucca

Three Cars and Yucca © 2011 Bo Mackison

I’m barely into my Grand Adventure and I already ran into a snafu. Not a bad snafu, just a time sucking one. And there are times when you can’t do much of anything about time drains, except admit you aren’t going to get everything done you’d planned to get done.

One can only go so fast hauling a trailer, and we lost travel time due to traveling in storms, so we drove fifteen hours straight to get to Tucson as scheduled.

The place I’ve rented for a couple of months is perfect for what I need – small, but not too small; in a quiet area, but not too quiet; plenty of open space and desert surroundings. Unfortunately, the promised computer hook-up was not available, so I couldn’t download any of the travel photographs or do much computer work last night or most of today.

Today was set-up day for the Tubac Festival of the Arts which runs from Wednesday through Sunday. (More info in tomorrow’s post.) I managed to set up part of my art booth, but then the Spring winds kicked in. And they packed a mighty wallop. I was just too darn exhausted to wrestle together my art booth while being battered by high, gusty winds. I’ll return early tomorrow morning to finish the booth and hang my photography canvases and prints. The show starts at 10, so I’ll have a little extra time if I get an early start.

I do want to mention the very best part of my day however. (Even days that aren’t going as planned can have great, unexpected moments!)

I was sitting on my patio this morning, only a few minutes after the sun rose into view above the mountains, sipping a cup of coffee. And a road runner strutted right through my back yard.

Now that may not be too exciting for anyone who has lived in the West, but I have to tell you, I have never seen a road runner close up – cartoon “beep-beep” road runners do not count. And I have surely never, ever visited with a road runner over early morning coffee – until today!

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. She is living in Tucson for the next eight weeks, exhibiting her photography in art fairs, taking photographs in deserts and desert gardens, and blogging about learning to live on her own. Visit as she writes about living and working in Tucson. Her mantra is “Bo goes solo!”