Weekend Roundup

Welcome to The Weekend Roundup...hosted by Tom The Back Roads Traveler

1. Starts with "A"
2. A Favorite
3. AROUND - Chosen by Tom

Starts with A (BIGGEST/SMALLEST/LONGEST/SHORTEST/OLDEST/FIRST)

ADVENTURE FIRST hot AIR balloon ride for us - Sedona ARIZONA

FAVOURITE

ADULT

AROUND
Birmingham England

Weekend Roundup

 Welcome to The Weekend Roundup...hosted by Tom The Back Roads Traveler

Starts with K

Favourite

KIND - chosen by Tom

TATS and TOKES

I'm going to feature the many Toronto tattoo and cannabis outlets that are proliferating around the city.

Starts with L

LOCALLY 

FAVOURITE

LANDSCAPE

Stunning - Sedona AZ

FRINGE BENEFIT

LITTLE LIBRARY LOOK

Bloor St. Toronto ON

ACTION

 One Word Sunday

Sedona AZ - getting the hot air balloon up for our ride ✅

Tuesday Treasures

Tom the backroads traveller hosts this weekly meme.
Travel Tuesday
Our World Tuesday
Image-in-ing
My Corner of the World


When we were in Sedona in November 2012 we stopped by an art gallery and found the amazing works of James Muir and we became mesmerized by his incredible talent. We had seen one of his sculptures The Dance  in uptown Sedona a few days before unaware at the time of the artist.

Weekend Roundup

Welcome to The Weekend Roundup...hosted by Tom The Back Roads Traveler

ABC Wednesday

1. Starts with "V"
2. A Favorite
3.  VERTICAL - chosen by Tom

Starts with "V"

Riding the Verde Canyon Railway in 2013.

FAVOURITE

Beer in Verona Italy 2004

VERTICAL

There's some vertical lines happening in this photo from Barrio Brewery in Tucson AZ.

LAST CALL

The VILLAGE Idiot pub in Toronto in August...

In October...the VILLAGE Genius!

Foto Tunes

Tom the backroads traveller hosts this weekly meme.

December 2012 - Arizona

Best Day of my Life - American Authors

I had fun matching up the lyrics. I used photos we took December 2012 in Sedona and Cottonwood.


I had a dream so big and loud

I jumped so high I touched the clouds

Wo-o-o-o-o-oh [x2]




I stretched my hands out to the sky



We danced with monsters through the night

Wo-o-o-o-o-oh [x2]



I'm never gonna look back

Woah, never gonna give it up

No, please don't wake me now







Oo-o-o-o-oo

This is gonna be the best day of my li-ife

My li-i-i-i-i-ife

Oo-o-o-o-oo

This is gonna be the best day of my li-ife

My li-i-i-i-i-ife


I howled at the moon with friends










And then the sun came crashing in

Wo-o-o-o-o-oh [x2]

But all the possibilities

No limits just epiphanies

Wo-o-o-o-o-oh [x2]







I'm never gonna look back

Woah, never gonna give it up

No, just don't wake me now

Oo-o-o-o-oo

This is gonna be the best day of my li-ife

My li-i-i-i-i-ife

Oo-o-o-o-oo

This is gonna be the best day of my li-ife

My li-i-i-i-i-ife

I hear it calling outside my window





I feel it in my soul (soul)

The stars were burning so bright

The sun was out 'til midnight

I say we lose control (control)

This is gonna be the best day of my li-ife

My li-i-i-i-i-ife

Oo-o-o-o-o

This is gonna be the best day of my li-ife

My li-i-i-i-i-ife

This is gonna be, this is gonna be, this is gonna be

The best day of my life

Everything is looking up, everybody up now

This is gonna be the best day of my li-ife

My li-i-i-i-i-ife

Weekend Roundup

Welcome to The Weekend Roundup...hosted by Tom The Back Roads Traveler
ABC Wednesday

1. Starts with "F"
2. A Favorite
3.   - chosen by Tom

Starts with "F"

Franziskaner since 1397!!!

2012 - Basel Switzerland

FAVOURITE


FRANK Wurster in Frankfort.

2015 - Frankfurt Germany

FULL

FULL Moon Saloon.

Sedona AZ

LAST CALL

FIREHOUSE Brewing Rapid City SD click on link to see their fire fighter mural.

#Blue

Life of B July Squares Challenge

Sedona AZ

Couldn't pass this up...once in a blue moon.

Cee's Fun Foto Challenge.

This week's challenge at Cee's Fun Foto Challenge.


The Next Series – Just Stuff

Colorful Monotones (one single color)


Sedona AZ

Cee's Fun Foto Challenge July 31

This week's challenge at Cee's Fun Foto Challenge.

Pick a Topic from this Photo

For the next five weeks, she will be posting a photo for each week and you can pick a topic from the photo. You can pick colors, or objects from the photo. She will post the photo a week prior to the each challenge.





Reflection, mirror, black and white, camera

Me, security camera, mirror

Mirrors

Tuesday Treasures

Pictorial Tuesday Tom hosts Tuesday's Treasures.
A repost from March 2013 with additional comments and photos.

March 2013 - Montezuma AZ

We had been here in the pre-digital days of our travels in 2000. This is a photo we took at the time that was framed on our wall for a long time in our house.

Us, on that same trip in Sedona when we woke to a snowstorm and had to shop for some clothes.

Anyway, back to 2013.


Montezuma Castle National Monument, located near Camp Verde, Arizona and features well-preserved cliff-dwellings.

They were built and used by the Pre-Columbian Sinagua people, northern cousins of the Hohokam, around 700 AD. It was occupied from approximately 1125-1400 AD, and occupation peaked around 1300 AD.] Several Hopi clans trace their roots to immigrants from the Montezuma Castle/Beaver Creek area. Clan members periodically return to their former homes for religious ceremonies. When European Americans discovered them in the 1860s, they named them for the Aztec emperor (of Mexico) Montezuma II, due to mistaken beliefs that the emperor had been connected to their construction. The Sinaqua dwelling was abandoned 100 years before Montezuma was born and the Dwellings were not a castle. It was more like a "prehistoric high rise apartment complex.

2000 was the first time that I became aware of these amazing cliff dwellers and have gone on to visit others in the southwest.

This gives a perspective on the size and location that this was built.

They also have a display depicting how they would have lived their daily lives.

About 50 feet west of the main ruin is a much less well preserved complex named Castle B, consisting of a few rudimentary rooms also on several levels.

I love fry bread which we first had in 2000 at the Grand Canyon. Click here for a recipe from the Smithsonian Museum.