On Thursday the 5th we headed up to Mount Lemmon on a 30 mile spectacularly winding road. As you move from the desert floor at about 1800 feet toward the summit of about 9000 feet the foliage transitions from the cholla and palo verde here ...



through a pretty good saguaro forest ...

through some steep and rocky terrain ...

to where we had our picture taken by another nice tourist at about the 4000 foot level ...

finally arriving at the Ski Valley resort at the top.

We had lunch at the Iron Door restaurant where we ate on our first arrival here in 1975. I think the little wooden bears have been in the lodge since then still guarding the fireplace faithfully.

I had my favorite Iron Door chili and corn bread which is their speciality and Jo had a chicken salad sandwich which were both excellent. Hers was accompanied by some of the best German potato salad which was made by one of the wait staff with her German  grandmother's recipe.

And then topped it off with some wonderful rhubarb pie!

All in all a great day on the mountain and one of our favorite places to visit ... spectacular vistas and great food!