(Lyn's note: Please feel free to send us any pictures you'd like included.  If your photos are for sale, let us know and we will put them under that category.  We have a special section for that purpose, and have just added some art as well.  Check out Tom Baker's photos for sale.  He's the photographer who took that gorgeous photo in the Carefree Gardens Photo Contest that was both the judges' first pick and the public favorite.  It's now featured on the Town of Carefree website, and will be the cover of the 2014 Gardens calendar that will be for sale later this summer at Carefree Town Hall.  If anyone would like to buy a print of any of Herbert's photos, all profits will be donated to one of the local non-profit organizations.)  Here's the link to this week's Pictures of the Week.

http://carefreetruth.com/Carefree_Truth/Photos_5-12-14.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Submitted by one of our readers)

Interesting Facts About Arizona...

1. Arizona has 3,928  mountain peaks and summits, more mountains than any one of the other Mountain  States (Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and  Wyoming).

2. All New England, plus the state of Pennsylvania would fit  inside Arizona.

3. Arizona became the 48th state and last of the  contiguous states on February 14, 1912.

4. Arizona's disparate climate  can yield both the highest temperature across the nation and the  lowest temperature across the nation in the same day.

5.  There are more wilderness areas in Arizona than in the entire Midwest. Arizona  alone has 90 wilderness areas, while the Midwest has 50.

6. Arizona has 26 peaks that are  more than 10,000 feet in elevation.

7. Arizona has the largest contiguous  stand of Ponderosa pines in the world stretching from near Flagstaff along the  Mogollon Rim to the White Mountains region.

8. Yuma, Arizona is the  country's highest producer of winter vegetables, especially lettuce.

9.  Arizona is the 6th largest state in the nation, covering 113,909 square  miles. 

10. Out of all the states in the  U.S., Arizona has the largest percentage of its land designated as Indian  lands.

11. The Five C's of Arizona's economy are: Cattle, Copper, Citrus,  Cotton, and Climate.

12. More copper is mined in Arizona than all the  other states combined, and the Morenci Mine is the largest copper producer in  all of North America.

13. Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, two of the most  prominent movie stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, were married on March 18, 1939,  in Kingman, Arizona.

14. Covering 18,608 sq. miles, Coconino County is  the second largest county by land area in the 48 contiguous United  States.

15. The world's largest solar telescope is located at Kitt Peak  National Observatory in Sells, Arizona.

16. Bisbee, Arizona is known as  the Queen of the Copper Mines because during its mining heyday it produced  nearly 25 percent of the world's copper and was the Largest city in the  Southwest between Saint Louis and San Francisco.

17. Billy the Kid killed  his first man, Windy Cahill, in Bonita, Arizona.

18. Arizona grows enough  cotton each year to make more than one pair of jeans for every person in the  United States.

19. Famous labor leader and activist Cesar Chavez was born  in Yuma.

20. In 1912, President William Howard Taft was ready to make  Arizona a state on February 12, but it was Lincoln's birthday. The next day, the  13th, was considered Bad luck so they waited until the following day. That's how  Arizona became known as the Valentine State.

21. When England's famous  London Bridge was replaced in the 1950s, the original was purchased, dismantled,  shipped stone by stone and reconstructed in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where it  still stands today.

22. Mount Lemmon, in the Santa Catalina Mountains, is  the southernmost ski resort in the United States.

23. Rooster Cogburn  Ostrich Ranch in Picacho, Arizona is the largest privately-owned ostrich ranch  in the world outside South Africa.

24. If you cut down a protected  species of cactus in Arizona, you could spend more than a year in  prison.

25. The world's largest to-scale collection of miniature airplane  models is housed at the library at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in  Prescott, Arizona.

26. The only place in the country where mail is  delivered by mule is the village of Supai, located at the bottom of the Grand  Canyon.

27. Located on Arizona's western border, Parker Dam is the  deepest dam in the world at 320 feet. 

28. South Mountain  Park/Preserve in Phoenix is the largest municipal park in the  country.

29. Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, located about 55  miles west of Phoenix, generates more electricity than any other U.S. power  plant.

30. Oraibi, a Hopi village located in Navajo County, Arizona,  dates back to before A.D. 1200 and is reputed to be the oldest continuously  inhabited community in America.  (Actually, Taos Pueblo in NM has been inhabited for more than 1000 years....but who's counting.)

31. Built by Del Webb in 1960, Sun City,  Arizona was the first 55-plus active adult retirement community in the  country.

32. Petrified wood is the official state fossil. The Petrified  Forest in northeastern Arizona contains America's largest deposits of petrified  wood. 

33. Many of the founders of San Francisco in 1776 were  Spanish colonists from Tubac, Arizona.

34. Phoenix originated in 1866 as  a hay camp to supply military post Camp McDowell.

35. Rainfall averages  for Arizona range from less than three inches in the deserts to more than 30  inches per year in the mountains.

36. Rising to a height of 12,643 feet,  Mount Humphreys north of Flagstaff is the state's highest mountain.

37.  Roadrunners are not just in cartoons! In Arizona, you'll see them running up to  17-mph away from their enemies.

38. The Saguaro cactus is the largest  cactus found in the U.S. It can grow as high as a five-story building and is  native to the Sonoran Desert, which stretches across southern  Arizona.

39. Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman appointed to the U.S.  Supreme Court, grew up on a large family ranch near Duncan, Arizona.

40.  The best-preserved meteor crater in the world is located near Winslow,  Arizona.

41. The average state elevation is 4,000 feet.

42. The  Navajo Nation spans 27,000 square miles across the states of Utah, Arizona and  New Mexico, but its capital is seated in Window Rock, Arizona.

43. The  amount of copper utilized to make the copper dome atop Arizona's Capitol  building is equivalent to the amount used in 4.8 million  pennies. 

44. Near Yuma, the Colorado River's elevation dips to 70  feet above sea level, making it the lowest point in the state.

45. The  geographic center of Arizona is 55 miles southeast of Prescott near the  community of Mayer.

46. You could pile four 1,300-foot skyscrapers on top  of each other and they still would not reach the rim of the Grand  Canyon.

47. The hottest temperature  recorded in Arizona was 128 degrees at Lake Havasu City on June 29,  1994 

48. The coldest temperature recorded in Arizona was 40 degrees  below zero at Hawley Lake on January 7, 1971.

49. A saguaro cactus can  store up to nine tons of water.

50. The state of Massachusetts could fit  inside Maricopa County (9,922 sq. Miles).

51. The westernmost battle of  the Civil War was fought at Picacho Pass on April 15, 1862 near Picacho Peak in  Pinal County.

52. There are 11.2 million acres of National Forest in  Arizona, and one-fourth of the state forested.

53. Wyatt Earp was neither  the town marshal nor the sheriff in Tombstone at the time of the shoot-out at  the O.K. Corral. His brother Virgil was the town marshal.

54. On June 6,  1936, the first barrel of tequila produced in the United States rolled off the  production line in Nogales, Arizona.

55. The Sonoran Desert is the most  biologically diverse desert in North America.

56. Bisbee is the Nation's  Southern most mile-high city.

57. The two largest man-made lakes in the  U.S. are Lake Mead and Lake Powell, both located in Arizona.

58. The  longest remaining intact section of Route 66 can be found in Arizona and runs  from Seligman to Topock, a total of 157 unbroken miles.

59. The 13  stripes on the Arizona flag represent the 13 original colonies of the United  States.

60. The negotiations for Geronimo's final surrender took place in  Skeleton Canyon, near present day Douglas, Arizona, in 1886.

61.  Prescott, Arizona is home to the world's oldest rodeo, and Payson, Arizona is  home to the world's oldest continuous rodeo, both of which date back to the  1880's.

62. Kartchner Caverns, near Benson, Arizona, is a massive  limestone cave with 13,000 feet of passages, two rooms as long as football  fields, and one of the world's longest soda straw stalactites: measuring 21 feet  3 inches.

63. 63.You can carry a loaded firearm on your person, no permit  required.
    

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