Mt. Lemon Drive

 

Mt. Lemon Drive

We’ve been to Catalina State Park a few times and one of our favorite drives is to take the back road up the back side of Mt. Lemon.  The views have never disappointed us!

This time, we got an additional treat!!  We believe this is a band of wild horses!  They were off to the side of the road, and seemed quite content on their own.  They didn’t seem startled at all as we drove slowly by, although we didn’t attempt to stop and walk over to them.

As I said earlier, the views did not disappoint, and we love the peacefulness of having the road to ourselves (except for the horses!).  That may have been Mt. Lemon we were looking at, although I can never tell on these mountain roads!

This view is from a bit further up the road.  You can see the road we’ve already traveled down off to the right of this image, and the bit of haze toward the horizon is the city of Tucson.  We were very close to town, and yet, a world away!

Autumn was underway in all its glory the further up the mountain we traveled, as you can see from this shot of the trees along a ridge up the mountain!  I do love the reds, greens and rust colors blended together!

As we headed up the mountain, we drove through a number of patches of areas damaged by the wildfires that ravaged the area over the summer.  This had been a bad wildfire season for the area around Tucson, and truly much of Arizona.  Still, it’s always heartening to me to see how Mother Nature displays rebirth in the midst of some of the devastation.

Enjoy!