Wandering Wednesday-Tucson Briefly

 

We had a very brief window to go out and about in Tucson, so we headed downtown this time. The old Pima county courthouse dome is lovely.

They have a really interesting water feature installed in front of the building, it's a memorial commemorating the January 8th, 2011 mass shooting that occurred in Tucson. This is the one that targeted Representative Gabby Giffords..

This was part of the water feature enclosure, some sort of metal. I like the kind of arcane looking symbols.

The skies that day were quite beautiful.

This art piece, Desert O was installed in-between the lanes of the road going through the center of downtown, It is solar powered and lights up with different changing colors. We just called it the donut for obvious reasons.

This mosaic near the art museum was very cool, the blue ceramic pieces on the side had pictures about several of death's incarnations. The hand in the center was very shiny silver.

I loved this door so much, and I'm very happy with this picture.

And after such a warm lovely day on Sunday, when we were on the plane to leave on Monday, a sudden hailstorm! It caused our pilot to have to physically come back into the cabin to check out the state of the wings. I'm guessing they don't have de-icing equipment at the Tucson airport. Thankfully we were okay and on our way soon.