The funny thing is when I think back over the past few months my thoughts are filled with our house: toiling in the yard, working on the house, painting, minor repairs and trip after trip to the home improvement stores. Yet when I flip through the pictures I realize that isn’t the complete story. Looking [...]
Out here in the Sonoran Desert, the land of five seasons, Spring is a short event running from February through April. Usually our Spring features a gentle warming trend that signals the end of our admittedly short and mild Winter. This year was a bit different as we experienced multiple rapid temperature swings over the [...]
The first part of the year here at Rancho Sol has been a bit unusual. Winter and Spring have tussled over just exactly which season is in charge. Several times now I have washed our heavy blankets and stored them away only to have to retrieve them again—most recently about a week ago. It sounds [...]
There is a dangerous invasion occurring here in the Southwest. Nope, not the human kind that has received so much media attention lately (that’s a whole ‘nother story for a different time). The invader I’m referring to has the potential to completely destroy the landscape here in southern Arizona: it is a plant known as [...]
Sign posted in a local Tucson eatery.
A cool yet sunny Saturday morning in mid-January found me in a carpool with some talented environmental educators. Our destination was Florida Station which is located, appropriately enough, in Florida Canyon along the northwest edge of the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson. And before I get to far ahead, you should know that it [...]
One of the many things that I love about traveling is being a tourist. Not in the annoying, stereotypical American type of way but in the exploratory way. For better or worse, I was born with an insatiable curiosity (ask anyone who knew me as a child). Perhaps when I was small someone read me [...]
With as busy a month as December was, it is no wonder that the time disappeared quick as a wink. Since it was the season, there were various holiday gatherings and celebrations mixed in with our house projects and work assignments along with a smattering of interesting short excursions. Tucson is so diverse that there [...]
The Old Pueblo has a lot going for it: it is the longest continually inhabited spot in the United States1, the winter weather can’t be beat, and it is the birthplace of that delicious Mexican entrée the chimichanga. As if that wasn’t enough we just recently learned that Tucson can add the birth of that [...]
Thirty days sounds like quite a long time but somehow the month just slipped away. At least that was our experience with November. Granted it was a busy time as we had tasks around the house and new work projects. Still, as you’ll soon discover we had plenty of time to play. Though we’ve both [...]
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