South Mountain Park, Phoenix

Today reached a high of 91F (33C) with no breeze, so it was not a day for walking. Instead, we drove around the downtown core, looking at the huge state-of-the-art sports stadiums amongst historic buildings being reinvented as housing communities. An interesting drive.

We then headed to the most southerly outskirts of the city, to the south mountain preserves area, part of South Mountain Park. Apparently, this park is the largest city park in the world. The preserves consist of wide open areas at the base of a large mountain range. It is used for recreational purposes, such as hiking and horseback riding. Because of the heat, we viewed the area by car.

A paddock next to the building below

Greg pulled over at the sight of this derelict building, which we thought looked interesting. I later googled Scorpion Gulch and found that it's listed on the Phoenix Historic Property Register as part of a ghost town. For more photos, click on the ghost town link.

While we were there, a professional photographer was taking photos of a girl in her quinceanera dress, worn in the Mexican culture for the celebration of a girl's 15th birthday. These dresses are just beautiful.

Also beautiful were the cactus surrounding this building. Some cactus are now in full boom.

Driving back to the city we noticed the building shown below, which is part of a factory that makes road signs. It's a large building and each of these "tiles" is a full-sized road sign. We took the photo purely because we thought it looked interesting, not because we noticed anything written with the signs.

To both of us it's now obvious in the photo, but we didn't see it when we were standing across the street. Can you see what's written?