Just a couple of things.

First, I would like to tell you about a friend who finally decided to start a blog. It's about day to day meal preparations that are tasty, quick and healthy. She states that her skills were developed over many years utilizing many different cookbook collections, friends recipes and her concern for good health with her strong interest in cooking. She is a generous lady and was driven by many of her friends to create a blog and share it with other people that could and would find the information useful in their daily lives. The blog just went live a couple of days ago and the title is "Food is not for fighting." The link is http://nofoodfights.blogspot.com/ I think that you might like her style of writing and enjoy her presentations. She's writing under the name of MsMike and if you stop by as I hope you will, tell her I said "Hello". She's a very neat lady.

Moving on, I live in Arizona and I love horses. Right now there is an Arabian Horse Show taking place at Westworld in Scottsdale and I plan on being there early tomorrow morning. These horses are beautiful and are competing for a piece or pieces of $1,000,000 in prizes. The competition is exciting to the horses, riders and owners but my interest lies with the relationship between the horse and their rider. Do they create magic together and move as one. They will be parading, dancing, prancing and jumping in a manner not often seen in public.

The camera and I will be out there to take the stable tour, take some shots of the traditional dress as well as the graceful moves of such stunning steeds. Don't get me wrong. I would feel the same way about a cowboy on a docile cutting horse working a herd of cattle on the open range. Most every horse I have ever seen, from Clydesdales and Tennessee Walkers to a herd of wild horses has always captured my undivided attention. I'm looking forward to the experience. I'll let you know what I thought. You might have time to get out to the show yourself.

Saturday morning, I'm headed out the the historic Renaissance Festival east of Apache Junction and if I have time, a trip to Superior to visit the Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park. If that is possible, I will then head back to the Valley to watch The Blue Rose Band perform at the Blooze Bar at 32nd St and Cactus in Phoenix.

I hope you have a great weekend and if you take a camera, remember to keep yourself in the picture.