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In our last Post, we showed a touching roadside Memorial to (we think) three people who lost their lives on Arizona State Highway 68, between Bullhead City and Kingman, Arizona.
http://bobbacaps.blogspot.com/2020/05/may-16-20-very-special-and-touching.html
In this Post, we are going to show a series of photographs showing the beautiful scenery that Highway 68 passes through.
In the above and below photographs, you will see some of the roadside flowers along Highway 68. These flowers are springtime flowers and we were fortunate that we saw them in full bloom.
Some yet-to-bloom flowers.
Here we go up into the distant Mountains.
In the distance, as we drop down from the Mountain crest, is the Golden Valley area before you reach Kingman.
There you have it. A photo shoot along Arizona State Highway 68, driving East from Bullhead City heading for Kingman, Arizona.
Cap and Patti. We both really enjoyed our many drives over Highway 68.
I think that everyone reading along here with Patti and me have seen many roadside memorials (usually white crosses) erected in memory of loved ones who have died in accidents along the various highways we all travel.
While staying over a month in Kingman, Arizona, up to three times a week, Patti and I drove back and forth on Arizona State Highway 68 to Bullhead City, Arizona, en route to visit Tom and Ginny, our great friends in Laughlin, Nevada.
After passing one of the most special roadside memorials we have ever seen along any highway, we decided to pay homage to those (it appears to have been three) who passed away in an accident by doing a photo-shoot of it.
The memorial was on the South side of Arizona Highway 68 East between Kingman and Bullhead City.
There we no names and there were no details as to what happened here.
In the below photo we are driving East. On the right edge, in the distance, up on a small hillside, is a white Memorial.
In the next photo below we are driving West. Across the four lane highway you can see the white Memorial in the above photo very clearly.
In the photos below we'll move closer to explore the Memorial in more detail.
In the above and below photos, note that the large cross on the left has three lights on it. At night these three lights are illuminated.
A beautiful vase on the ground at the Memorial.
Looking down at our truck from up at the Memorial.
In Memory .. Rest In Peace .. Whoever and Wherever You Are ..
Patti and Cap
SNOW?
IN ANCHORAGE, ALASKA?
IN THE MONTH OF MAY?
Well yes and no at the same time.
One of our good friends down in Phoenix, Arizona (where we saw 107°F during our visit last month) said to us during a telephone visit, after we told him that it was in the high 50's here, "Is there snow still on the ground up there?"
No not really (in the sense of his question) BUT at the same time yes, there still is some snow on the ground.
THE REST OF THE STORY
If you have never lived in a real by-gosh-and-by-golly snow area you don't understand that during the winter months, all of the snow that is plowed off the streets, parking lots and airport runways etc has to be put somewhere.
Immediately adjacent to the area in which we live is one of the Anchorage Snow Disposal Sites.
As you will see in the below photos, it is enormous in size. The snow is not merely dumped onto the ground, it is stacked high by large front end loaders as the trucks hauling the snow depost their loads.
Here we go with a look at some snow in Anchorage Alaska in the month of May.
The first photo below shows the main street that leads into our residential area.
To the left in the above photo you see the entryway gate into our local Anchorage Snow Disposal Site.
Now we will explore the site and see some Snow in May.
This Snow Disposal Site has a capacity of two hundred and twenty thousand cubic yards of snow.
In the next two photos we are looking East.
Looking to the South from the entryway gate.
Now we are going to walk into the site and take a closer look at the large 'mini-mountain' of snow still remaining in May.
During my visit, I found some very scenic photographic views.
A closer look at the East face of the site.
Several photos showing the central area of the site.
The next two photos below look South.
A small bird wading around in the water.
The below photo, taken looking South from the entryway gate, shows the South side of the Disposal Site.
Another view of the South side of the site looking back from the East end.
Now we are going to explore the South, side of the site. I hiked up over the snow to get the below view looking back to the East.
Well that is that for snow in Anchorage in the month of May.
Smiles,
Cap and Patti
