Tombstone, AZ - Helldorado Days

The weather here in Green Valley has been "unusual," with a huge thunder storm and lots of rain last night and again some rain tonight. Paul's sister and brother-in-law, Mary and Charlie, were with us all week and had to leave today. We will miss having them here.

This was Helldorodo Days week-end in Tombstone and we took our neighbor, Erika, and headed out at 8:00 am for the hour and a half drive. This is a special event in Tombstone when the locals and many visitors come dressed in period clothing, complete including dresses with bustles and men with spurs, gun belts and Stetson hats, etc.

There are scheduled events in the main street that reenact events of the past and skits of gun fights. There are groups of dancers as well, but mostly the guys who love their guns. Since we have been going for a number of years now, we see many of the same people each time. The guy with Erika and me is really pretty gross, with weird eyes and other make-up, but is really very friendly.

Paul's photographic interest is taking close-up pictures of people, and for the most part they are very obliging and even like to look at their picture on the LCD screen of the camera. Between us we took many portraits and will put some on our website.


That's it for now. Grace and Paul