Bunkhouse Windows — Images by kenne
Hidden
Under a thick mesquite bosque,
A barbwire fence
Separates
The historic Juan Bautista de Anza trail
From an old
Abandoned building,
Whose cracked adobe walls
And collapsing roof
Provide sunlight and shadow
Through yawning windows
On individual items
Of cowboys past —
Enduring whispers
From a permanent
Desert breeze
Bearing celebratory voices
After a hard day’s ride.
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Joy & Kenne
Tubac is southern Arizona’s Artist Colony and the first European Settlement in Arizona, founded in 1752. This small artist community is located in the Santa Cruz River Valley has over eighty galleries and shops. Joy and I took her sisters (Jody and Jeri) and their mother (Virginia) forty-five miles south of Tucson peruse the shops, after which we had coffee in a local bookstore and coffee shop. It is very likely that we will be returning in October for southern Arizona’s largest outdoor jazz festival.
