{Palo Verde Tree blooming in Scottsdale Arizona}

On March 24, we were at the Costco Wholesale Gas Station Airpark in Scottsdale, Arizona.

We already had admired the masses of yellow blooms alongside the highway and now we saw one nearby. It is the beautiful Palo Verde Tree!

Such bright yellow everywhere you turned...

The Palo Verde seems to be the State Tree!

Arizona in general is such a well maintained State, everywhere you turn.

It makes for feeling happy, to see such trees!

Very friendly people too!

And a happy me!
Filling up the rental car, our Toyota Corolla...

{Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge in Arizona}

On July 20 of 2009, both of us went with our best friends to Las Vegas for a long weekend. So we had the opportunity to visit Hoover Dam. We were in awe about the construction of the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge, at 890 feet high (271 meters) with 1,060 feet span (323 meters) belonging to the highest bridges. Just click the hyperlink for very interesting photos.

Using my video camera in 2009 and we were so impressed by this huge Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge!

We always wanted to go back and see the completion of this HUGE bridge...

Construction everywhere at the time we visited the Hoover Dam in July of 2009.

Another friendly tourist offered to take a picture from both of us!

Construction of the Bridge you can see again to the left...

Here we come! On March 22, we got up at 2:30 AM in order to fly to Phoenix, Arizona and using again a free companion ticket from Delta Airline's American Express card. It would expire on March 31.

Here we are at the parking lot and we have to climb up to the bridge...

From Phoenix it took us some 4 hours driving via Highway 93, a very scenic route and we got here around 5:00 PM.

Once we climbed all the way up to the actual bridge the view was incredible!

Remember, this bridge is 890 feet high (271 meters)!

Lake Mead, the country's largest man made lake is in the back and the Colorado River underneath after it passed the Hoover Dam.

It was a long day and finally after almost 6 years we're here!

This is a four-lane bridge and there is no trembling when huge trucks pass over it.

Pieter using his Nikon and I used my iPad...
Standing on the second-highest bridge of any kind in the USA and the 14th in the world.
Hoover Dam Bridge ←click the link for more info.

Very happy feeling and oh so rewarding...

Pieter captured an excellent over view with the Nikon!

Explanation about the funding of this Mike O'Callaghan - Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge 

Yes, at the end of this ramp up to the bridge (and down) there is the border of Arizona and you enter the State of Nevada.

Mind boggling how they secured those rocks for being safe.

We only had to drive about half an hour to Las Vegas, from Boulder City where the Hoover Dam is located.

We stayed at Hyatt Place Las Vegas and went to bed real early after such a long but very rewarding day.

Time difference is 3 hours with Georgia.

This is breakfast time next morning at the Hyatt Place.

Related links:

Time Lapse Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge Construction Video from Federal Highway Administration | Very interesting video

Highest Bridges | Interesting photos, 3 pages see bottom for clicking to next one.

{Bird House from Wood Trail Scraps}

Husband Pieter did create a lovely Bird House, built from the Wood Trail Scraps.

Below this post you find a link with photos, where you can see him building the Wood Trail.

This is the result...

One more lovely home for our feathered friends!

Related link:
{Cashmere Words of Wisdom & Update} | previous post by me showing the actual Wood Trail from which these scraps came...