Terri Webster Schrandt invites us to introduce people to our home town. Prescott is part of a collage of towns: Prescott, Prescott Valley, Dewey-Humbolt, Chino Valley, and Meyer. Here are some of my favorite places in the area. Next week I’ll head down to Courthouse Square and up the Senator’s Highway and see what’s new with the Christmas Lights.
Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Short Things
Do people who smoke the shorter pipes live longer or shorter lives?
Some women are shorter than men, and some are not. The car is shorter than the streetcar. the grass and bushes in front of the mural would look better cut shorter.
The feather hanging is shorter than the ladder in this trio of decor.
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: Tree or Truck
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – Color Caramel
Arizona is rich in caramel colored rocks. If we take a couple of road trips going an hour or two away from Prescott, I could take a visitor to any of these places.
Medley of Challenges
- Cee’s Black & White Challenge – Short Things
- Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – caramel color
- Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge Tree or Truck
- Cell Pic Sunday – I’m never without my iPhone 12 mini All pictures today are processed on Adobe Bridge. Some are cropped, one is straightened, and all are made more vibrant through processing.
- Sunday Stills – Prescott – “Everybody’s Hometown”
- Thursday Trios – a group of wall decorations
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38 responses to “A Challenging Sunday In and Near Prescott, AZ “Everybody’s Hometown””
Nice photos Marsha. I especially like the caramel coloured ones.
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Thanks, Carol. I had fun with that challenge.
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Lots of responses to this week’s challenges, Marsha!
I am truly missing Arizona right now, especially after seeing your photos. I am, though, looking forward to heading east to Saint Augustine, FL just after Christmas.
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I’m sure you will enjoy that. I don’t think I’ve ever been there. Most of my time in FL was spent either near Tampa or Miami.
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What a splendid response to such a large number of challenges. Great captures Marsha.
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Thanks, Anne. It was fun. How are you feeling?
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Ok. Not perfect but ok
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I’m glad you are better. Take care. Our son has COVID right now, and he’s been pretty isolated working from home since the beginning.
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What a fantastic job hitting all these challenges. I loved going through your photos 😀 Thanks Marsha for joining in the fun 😀
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Thanks, Cee. I enjoyed them all!
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When I saw your title I was concerned something had gone wrong in your home town, so it’s a relief to know that you were referring to blogging challenges. I should have known, given your knack of ticking off so many challenges in a single post 😀 You may have excelled yourself here – is this a record?! My favourites are the ones out of town, with that incredible scenery so close to your home 🙂
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You should visit! The history here is more in the rocks than in the buildings and even the people. The natives in this area were called Sinagua, meaning without water. They left suddenly in about 600 years ago. They may have integrated with the Apache and Yavapai Indians in the Prescott area but they left lots of evidence that they were here. The Americans didn’t come until the 1800s. But there is so much to see here, that you would love it. It’s just different than the ancient history in Asia and Europe.
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I’ve been to Arizona many years ago, although we didn’t get further south than Flagstaff apart from a day trip from there to Sedona. We did a road trip through the Utah national parks and northern AZ – amazing scenery and yes, I loved all the native history in the area too!
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I haven’t been to Utah yet. There are so many places yet to visit.
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I’m surprised Vince didn’t want to take that truck home with him. 🙂
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He might have if the owners hadn’t been there. Isn’t it a beauty?
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I’ve greatly enjoyed discovering Prescott through your posts. It looks like an awesome place to live!
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It really is a charming place. Thanks, Donna.
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After that fab truck the rest of the post was lost into a brain mush that kept scrolling back up. I know there was something about caramel 🙂
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You couldn’t eat the caramel. That was the problem, wasn’t it BB? I sort of based the whole post around Cee’s three challenges wrapped into a semi-cohesive bun called Sunday Stills and kept everything close to home. But you just got distracted by that amazing truck.
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And you do the wrap so well Marsha 🙂
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Thank you, I think!!! 🐯
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What a great place to live Marsha, those rock formations and the Verde Canyon are amazing.
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It is an amazing place. Once you live here for a while, life is fairly normal just like in other places, but you can never get away from the scenery.
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It is understandable. 😀
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Just read about the Hotshots killed in the fire. What a tragedy. Just stunning to have that many young men lost at once to a relatively small town.
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It was epic for the people here and they don’t forget them. Each year on the anniversary, they place the number 19 under the gigantic P on the hillside for about a month or so to honor the Hotshots. There are memorials in various restaurants and, of course this long mural. It’s quite stunning. I did a post on the entire mural in September https://alwayswrite.blog/2022/09/16/ppac-64-a-day-celebrating-heroes/.
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Just heartbreaking. I’d like a story on how their families have fended since then. It is hard enough to get over the death of an elderly spouse or parent or friend, but all of these men cut down in their prime is a tragedy beyond comprehension.
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It is. Thank you for sharing your condolences, my friend. I can’t even imagine the devastation on those families. We just lost a friend this weekend and she had a long beautiful life and yet it was so devastating.
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Marsha, I hope there is a picture of every one of them somewhere in the mural.
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I didn’t count them.😃😃
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What wonderful shots of your (not so) new digs, Marsha! Prescott is a great place to live, I know we really have enjoyed our visits there! With Sedona being so close and now my family members living nearby, it makes sense to visit AZ more often!
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Amen to that!
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Sedona is wonderful. Also enjoyed the nearby Verde Canyon Railroad.
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Yes, we did the railroad trip, too. I would advise doing it on a day where the temperature is less than 110. 🙂
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There’s something about an old red truck that brings a smile …. and the first pic of caramel is stunning.
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Thank you, Frank. I love that truck. The owner was loading it with items from the store when we walked down the street. I started snapping pictures right away, then when he came out again, I asked permission. What a gem!
Have you ever been to Sedona? If not, you need to come out here and visit. It will take your breath away.
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