Thunder on Jerome

 

I was driving just south of Sedona, AZ.  The sun was 

still shining on the Pinion pines next to the road.

Providing a perfect backdrop was a storm crossing

the mountains near the town of Jerome.  This little town

clings to the side of the mountains.  One block of houses

and the road switches back on it's self.  Now your looking

at the roof tops of the houses you just passed.  Jerome

in it's hay day was a booming Copper mining town.  The

remnants of that past are still visible.  The slag from the

mining is toxic and contaminates the ground.  During

those days the governor of AZ built a house there in Jerome.

Now it sits by itself on a contaminated parcel of land.

Today the town is a buzz of interesting little shops.  One 

I found was very unusual.  They sold nothing but 

Kaleidoscopes.  Large ones and small ones.  

I spent hours going through and looking at the 

unusual patterns created by all the 

different ways of making a Kaleidoscope.  

Cool.