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Arizona Friends & Family Reunions Winter 2015

To escape the winter's cold between February 10th to the 17th 2015; we headed west to the deserts of Arizona. There we experienced a warm and relaxed reunion with friends and family including food and conversation, hiking, photography, reading, puzzles, UAMA Museum of Art, Tuscon http://www.artmuseum.arizona.edu/ and more. Our desert "home" base was with Don and Karen Shankster, Scottsdale. plus a day trip and overnight stay with Jim and Chris Roberts, Oro Valley (near Tuscon & the Catalina State Park). And then a surprise reunion - Don & Joyce Jordan, from Ft. Wayne, IN arrived Sunday morning to attend the Papago Buttes Church of the Brethren http://pbcob.org/cms/ 2450 N. 64th St., Scottsdale, AZ 85257
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Arizona Friends & Family Reunion 2015 (Clockwise from Upper Left: Jim & Chris Roberts, Oro Valley, AZ, Sarah and Chris, Kent and Jim; Lower Center: Don & Joyce Jordan with Kent & Sarah and Don & Karen Shankster with Kent & Sarah.
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Arizona Friends & Family Reunion 2015 (Clockwise from Upper Left: Jim & Chris Roberts, Oro Valley, AZ, Sarah and Chris, Kent and Jim; Lower Center: Don & Joyce Jordan with Kent & Sarah and Don & Karen Shankster with Kent & Sarah.

  • Arizona Friends & Family Reunion 2015 (Clockwise from Upper Left: Jim & Chris Roberts, Oro Valley, AZ, Sarah and Chris, Kent and Jim; Lower Center: Don & Joyce Jordan with Kent & Sarah and Don & Karen Shankster with Kent & Sarah.
  • The University of Arizona Museum of Art (UAMA), 1031 North Olive Road, SECorner of Park & Speedway, Open Tuesday-Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday & Sunday 12-4pm 520.621.7567 <a href="http://www.artmuseum.arizona.edu">http://www.artmuseum.arizona.edu</a>
  • Exterior composition of UAMA.
  • Study for Marilyn (Vanitas) II, Transparency 1976, print 2010, Cibachrome print, Audrey Flack (American,b.1931).
  • Doesn't this painting look familiar ?
  • And you've probably seen this one before too.
  • The permanent collection, comprises more than 6000 artworks, spans the time period from 3500 BCE to the present. (Clockwise, from Upper Left, Les Constructeurs (Construction Workers),Fernand Leger, French (19881-1955); Red Canna, Georgia O'Keefe,1925-28, American (1887-1986); Man and Machine, Irene Rice Deneira, American (1902-1971);Leorande Place 1958, Minda Hess (American b. 1906).
  • Untitled photo
  • Left, The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido # 32, Arai 1855, Ando Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858). In 1821, Hiroshige traveled the length of the Tokaido Road from Edo to Kyoto on assignment as part of the delegation transporting goods to the Imperial Court. The artist's mastering of the western perspective creates a serene balance between land, sea and sky.
  • The City, Edward Hopper (American 1882-1967)
  • Still Life in Whites ca. 1940, Lucile Blanch (American, 1895-1981) A perfect reminder that it was time for lunch.
  • Colorful benches in Historic Downtown Tuscon, showing the "Power of Kindness".
  • Made in USA Sweatshop Free...colorful marketing in the desert.
  • WILKO for lunch. a gastropub in the Main Gate district <a href="http://www.barwilko.com/">http://www.barwilko.com/</a> And yes, the pie was delicious. The following two days I walked around 45 miles, so when in the desert you can have your pie and enjoy it too.
  • Jim & Chris Roberts' neighborhood, Oro Valley, AZ.
  • WELCOME.
  • The bed portion of our delightful stay in the Roberts' B & B. Perfect.
  • Chris stays cool under the umbrella.
  • Jim, an avid bicycle rider and outdoors-man, has recovered steadily from a horrific bicycle crash in October 2014.
  • Kent and Jim, two of the surviving partners from PRO (our bio-medical start-up venture), have known each other since the late 70s during our time in Southern California (Irvine & Tustin area). We shared a few stories from those years together.
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