MARCH 2009
DOS CABEZAS SPIRIT AND NATURE RETREAT BED AND BREAKFAST NEWSLETTER
Please visit our main website at www.doscabezasretreat.com
A special thanks to all our guests who have recently stayed with us. We've made many new friends all the way from Nova Scotia and Ontario Canada, California, Orgeon, Florida, and Pennsylvania to Tucson and Phoenix, and all points in-between. Thanks to our special Valentine's guests (you know who you are!) We had a great time helping you surprise your husband! Also, a special shout-out goes to Dr. Paul Johnsgard, the 2009 Wings Over Willcox Birding Festival Guest Speaker. What a brilliant man, prolific author of over 50 books, an entertaining guest speaker, and best of all one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. We loved hosting you during your trip to SE Arizona and hope to see you here again soon.
Spring is in the air and the temperature today as I write this (March 4) is somewhere around 78. We have a yard full of courting and calling Inca Doves, Northern Cardinals, Black-throated Sparrows, Roadrunners, White-crowned and Chipping sparrows, Gambel's Quail, Cooper's, Red-Tailed, and Sharp-shinned Hawks, and about a hundred Lesser Goldfinches who dot the trees like lemon-yellow Easter eggs. And there's Cactus Wrens, house sparrows, house finches, and Curved-billed Thrashers courting and all busy making nests. In the evening the Great horned owls softly hoot and call.
We look forward to seeing all our old friends, and making new friends in the comng months. Call us at 520-384-6474 or just send us an email us at IWantToStay@doscabezasretreat.com. We hope you enjoy the newsletter! (To unsubscribe, just send me a return email to IWantToStay@doscabezasretreat.com.)
IN THIS ISSUE:
***RECENT PHOTOS AT OUR BED AND BREAKFAST
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***UPCOMING AREA EVENTS
Surprise SE AZ February snowfall. What a mesmerzing winter wonderland!
Mule deer have discovered our bird watering trough. They are so gentle and just a wonderful and peaceful sight to behold!
A Sharp-shinned Hawk, as well as several Cooper's Hawks, have discovered our birding feeder stations! They exhibit great patience.
The javelina are active this time of year in our yard, attracted to the water and the birdseed which has fallen to the ground.
Meditate in our private chapel during your stay at our bed and breakfast. Also, join our local Southeast Arizona Meditation Circle at Dos Cabezas Spirit and Nature Retreat on certain Sundays, and at other times we rotate between various devotee homes in SE AZ. Call for information regarding meeting times and dates. Also, if you are interested in a permanent community which is being developed by devotees of Paramahansa Yogananda and which is only about 35 mintues from our retreat, call or email Charmayne for information.
UPCOMING AREA EVENTS:
FREE COMMUNITY BIRDING TOUR
Saturday, March 7th: Wings Over Willcox is offering a free birding tour for Willcox and the surrounding communities. The tour will meet at the Willcox Community Center, 312 W Stewart St and go out for two and one-half hours from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. to view birds. Bring binoculars, hats, sun screen & water bottles. RSVP to chamberacct@vtc.net or 520-384-2272.For more of this story, click on or type the URL below: http://www.willcoxrangenews.com/articles/2009/02/25/news/news09.txt
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TRIBUTE TO MARTY ROBBINS
Friday, March 6th and Saturday March 7th: Celebrate the life and accomplishments of Marty Robbins. For more information, visit the Marty Robbins Museum website at www.friendsofmartyrobbins.org or email infomartyrobbins@vtc.net.
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KEELING-SCHAEFER VINEYARDS
Visit by appointment one of the most beautiful spots on earth, the Keeling-Schaefer Vineyards, close to the Chiricahua Mountains. Meet Rod Keeling (President of the Arizona Wine Growers Association) and his lovely wife, Jan Schaefer, two of the nicest folks you would ever want to meet. Look for their gorgeous ad in Arizona Vines and Wines Magazine, www.arizonavinesandwindes.com, as well as on their website. Their warm hospitality and the charm of their vineyard surrounds you as you taste their fine wine and enjoy the spectacular views of the Chiricahua Mountains from their vineyards. When you reserve your accommodations with us at Dos Cabezas Spirit and Nature Retreat, we will be happy to make an appointment for you at the vineyards. Your wine tasting experience includes a souvenir wine glass and a tour of the winery. Their fine wines are available for purchase by the bottle at the winery. Call them for a wine tasting appointment at 520-824-2500 or visit their website at www.keelingschaefervineyards.com. By fall they will open a wine-tasting room on weekends on historic Railroad Avenue in Willcox.
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CORONADO VINEYARDS
Coronado Vineyards, located just east of Willcox, is another of our very favorite places, and Jacque Cook is the lovely and hospitable hostess and owner. They are becoming quite famous for the Friday night "wine-downs" and dinner, monthly Saturday night dinner, weekday lunches, and Sunday brunches. Their annual Summer Luau is Saturday, July 11th and their 3rd Annual Grape Stomp is Saturday, August 29th. They are open Monday-Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Visit their website at www.coronadovineyards.com or call them at 520-384-2993.
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ARIZONA VINES AND WINES MAGAZINE
For more information on the fascinating and growing Southeastern wine industry, log onto www.ArizonaVinesAndWines.com. Josh and Rhonni Moffitt have produced the most beautiful and interesting magazine, and Josh is also a specialist in AZ vineyard properties. They are ready to assist you with advertising, property purchases, or just to answer questions for you about the opportunites in AZ wine growing.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------SE AZ ARTS AND PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW
April 24, 25, 26 at the Willcox Community Center. Contact the Willcox Chamber for details at www.willcoxchamber.com
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NEW! We now accept all major credit cards!
(And cash and checks.)
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For more events in the area, check out the Willcox Chamber website at (www.willcoxchamber.com). They are terrific folks and very helpful. Tell them we sent you!
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Included below is part of the blurb from our website. If you haven't checked it out yet, take a look at www.doscabezasretreat.com.
We hope to see all of you soon and in the meantime, may you walk in Light, Peace and Beauty.
Charmayne and Jon Samuelson
DOS CABEZAS SPIRIT AND NATURE RETREAT
www.doscabezasretreat.com
520-384-6474
EXCERPT FROM OUR WEBSITE at www.doscabezasretreat.com:
The serene Dos Cabezas Mountains 14 miles southeast of Willcox, Arizona, and twenty minutes along Hwy. 186 to the mystical Chiricahua Mountains, are the home of the Dos Cabezas Spirit and Nature Retreat bed and breakfast guest lodging in the historic ghost town of Dos Cabezas. The village was named after the striking twin-peaked mountains (the English translation is two heads) that rise above the village. The Retreat's setting is secluded and private, and we border thousands of acres of State land.
The Retreat's private guest house is furnished with comfy sleeping accommodations and we serve a gourmet Southwest breakfast. You will enjoy complete privacy, as we host only one party at a time at the retreat. The country guest house, casita, and the owner's residence are authentic and historical adobe homes from the late 1800's and are your home base for premier birding and nature viewing, peaceful meditation, astronomy, hiking, photography, picking fruit at local peach and apple orchards and vegetable farms, and ghost towning. Our elevation is about 5,100 feet, just right for picture-perfect spring and fall weather, moderate summers and winters, and for your geo-tourism and eco-tourism adventures. The guest house shown above is dated from the mid-1800's and is rich in history. Dos Cabezas Spirit and Nature Retreat Bed and Breakfast is commited to the ongoing preservation of the historical integrity of these priceless adobe homes.
Today, Dos Cabezas Spirit and Nature Retreat Bed and Breakfast is a great home base from which to explore and experience the historical and contemporary treasures of the area. A short 10-minute drive takes you to the famous Willcox Twin Lakes birding site, and home of Wings over Willcox Birding Festival. It's a gorgeous 20-minute drive to the Chiricahua National Monument on the west side of the Chiricahua Mountains, and it's only about a 25-minute drive to the trailhead of historic Fort Bowie. Portal, Arizona, and Paradise, Arizona, known for world-class birding, are just about an hour and a half drive over Onion Saddle to the east side of the Chiricahua Mountains. And 15 minutes into Willcox you will find the rich history of the Rex Allen Museum, the Marty Robbins Museum, the National Day of the Cowboy Museum, and the Chiricahua Regional Museum which document local pre-history, history and the cowboy and ranching way of life. It is also an easy drive to famous Tombstone and Bisbee.
Willcox has become known as the best place in southern Arizona for 'pick your own' fruit and nut orchards and vegetable farms, and is rapidly establishing a reputation for quality vineyards and wine tasting.
All this and much more await your visit! As you browse our website, you will find additional information, birding lists, and tourist attractions. If you are looking for peace, nature, and the opportunity to experience the Old West the way it really was in a rustic setting, you will like our Retreat. We look forward to meeting you and hope that you will have a wonderful stay at Dos Cabezas Spirit and Nature Retreat!
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