Rockin' at The Boulders.

Just back from four days at The Boulders, an iconic resort hideaway north of Phoenix in the Sonoran desert.

The landscape is singularly stunning:  think Flintstones gone glam in private casitas hugging the rock piles with giant saguaro cactus reaching for the cornflower blue sky.  Saw a rattlesnake, cottontail rabbits, quail, lizards and piglike javelinas.

Fred & Wilma would be jealous:  the food, the drinks, the spa!  Oh, and the hot air ballooning, Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West, The Heard Museum North, shopping, hot air ballooning.

There's a reason the town is called Carefree:  http://www.theboulders.com/.