ARIZONA SKIES

ASHES AND SNOW PHOTO BY GEOFFREY COLBERT Some, very few, gifted artists have the ability to stop you dead in your tracks and leave you so ...

HOLY CRAP! OK, OK, I'll take a couple dozen cases. From my friend Gerri, who is out to save the world, one cookie at a time. What...

Women’s Aid Organizations from Half the Sky See the faces of hope here. Please take a moment to use the two links above and see how these o...

A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME Johnson and Perkins "Antigua" Rose This is my favorite rose of all time. It was a gift, almost fifteen ...

TO GO WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE Here's a clue. It's not space. Oh, the joys of medical screening. Medicine is all about prev...

HOOP DANCING The Heard Museum in Phoenix tells the story of American Indian cultures, with an emphasis on the Southwest, using it's bea...

MY NAME ESCAPES ME..... * Retiring from a former life requires diligent purging. The old chrysalis must be fully detached before a newly d...

ANCIENT ECHOES Deep in the Southwest back country and accessible only by train, the pristine and protected Verde Valley, an ecosystem suppor...

TALL TAILS Gomez - The House God Common Side Blotched Lizard "Uta Stansburiana " Please, is there anything 'common' about ...

KILLER POMEGRANATE Many years ago, in a different home far away, I was looking for nicely painted paper mache fruit for an impressive cut gl...

A GRAIN OF SALT No one, traveling east from the Sierra Nevada, can be a stranger to Interstate 80, especially that section between Nevada an...

THE REAL DEAL "Well, I'm standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona and its such a fine sight to see .....take it easy, take it easy...

SHOW LOW Does this look like Show Low to you? Me either. It is the inside of a Chinese restaurant, a very good one. My friend Gerri, seat...

BIRTHDAY SILLINESS This is the Gemini Girls birthday party. If it was not a birthday, we would think of something else to celebrate. What...

CHIHULY I love art glass. It draws me in with a mesmerizing quality that is otherworldly. Remember those craftspeople at festivals and fai...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Today is my birthday, my 61'st. It is also the day I choose to launch this blog that marks the arbitrary beginning of ...