Day Four in Tucson - the many faces of four days

- Serious wholesale shopping - Wheelie suitcases rolled by ladies in foot casts (really there were that many) - International caravan of shops - Badges donned - Animated faces - Yuni silver - Sleeping Beauty turquoise - Navajo pieces - Ginormous black pearls - Luminescent pearls - Bling bling bling - Gem show mania - Family style lunches - Deep tissue story telling - Honed movements - Layering of ideas - Fruit tart - Animated hands - "your tribe" - local authoress shares viewpoint - Tethered to common reality concept discussed - Physicality of seeing what we are doing - "Ideas are cheap" - Too many cement floors - Beaded out - Thank you Kate, Andrew, Beth, Laurie-Anne, Charlene, Doriot, Ellen & Meryl for a great experience -Starting to feel comfortable working on my borrowed PC ( thank you LA & B) & blog format ...finally

Day Three in Tucson - Heard the last train to Yuma (for Saturday anyway)

- A parade of colour - African Village show - Car crash witnessed - Raw agate, quartz & crystals - Fulani wedding beads by the pound - Another amazing lunch beside the pool at the Atomic Ranch - Shared purchases - Haggling - Show & Tell - Old Town artisans - Chatty vendors - Yummy dinner at Cafe Poca Cosa - Baskets - Carvings - Thrones - Smiles - Negotiations - Lessons learned - Laughs shared - ATM maxed out - Banana cheesecake to die for - Friendships enriched - Another incredible starry night

Day Two in Tucson

Cloudless blue sky - Big starry night - Friendly faces - Helpful people - Like mindedness - Oranges in the garden - Too cold for snakes - Original neon signs  - Dillinger country - Home of the OK Corral - The Hotel Congress - Techno headache - Blog started - Miss my MAC - Artistic environment - Purple minded - Rattlesnake bridge - Navajo turquoise - Surrounded by mountains - Saguaro Cactus galore  - Legalized pot - University town - Atomic ranch - Living in the present - Tohono Churl Park - Carbon footprint in the art world