Visiting the Santa Rita Mountains

Nice relaxing Saturday today.  We drove out to Green Valley, to a place called La Posada.  La Posada is a retirement community and they hired the firm Rebeca works for to design many of their gardens and signage.  So, Rebeca has had a big role in the design of many things there and for the longest time we have wanted to go out there to see it in person.  The gardens and the park were so nice and relaxing.  The people who live in that community must really really enjoy visiting that area.

After visiting La Posada, we drove to Madera Canyon.  We sat on some benches with a lot of other people for a while to watch some birds and hummingbirds and it was so amazing to see how little Scotty loved watching the birds, too.  The hummingbirds were at a feeder quite close to us so he got to see the hummingbirds really well.  He just loved it.

After Madera Canyon, we drove to Tubac where we had lunch and from there we drove to Tumacacori.  Scotty was asleep by then so I stayed in the car with him while Guillermo and Rebeca visited the mission.  Guillermo says that his mother and her brother Henry long time ago climbed around on the walls of that church so visiting there had special meaning for them both.