Meet More Prescott Bloggers

We're planning another meet-up for Prescott bloggers, which prompted me to do another search of Blogger to see if I am missing anybody from the master list (see my blogroll at right.) All I can say is "Oh boy!" At this juncture, there are some 240 folks who have said they're in Prescott and they're doing a blog on The Google's monster blog home. No, I didn't search other hosts, not knowing my way around TypePad and simply being too old to unravel the spaghetti of MySpace. But I found some interesting new folk.

Little Buddy, who's into bicycling long distances (like the Skull Valley/Wilhoit/White Spar loop), blogs at The 305; this handsome tarantula is her most recent picture. Like many of the bloggers listed among the 240, she is an educator. Another interesting local educator writes TableTop Education, focusing in on those new $100-200 machines and what they can do to enhance youngsters' education here and in the 3rd World.

Michelle has a house full of looms because she loves fibers and colors; you can meet her at Weave Your Dreams. She also managed to get a bunch of hydrangeas to bloom. In Prescott. Another interesting local artist shows her work at Kathy Anne Art; her very contemporary approach combines digital imaging, unusual surfaces and fabrics.

The picture above is a site up in the juniper woodlands north of Paulden; Mountainaire Systems, a contract archeology firm, reports on its findings in a survey of the Drake/Hell Canyon area. (FYI: Our two favorite HC sites were a lush spring closer to the Verde River and a pond upstream on the west side of SR89.)

Many of the bloggers I checked out were writing very personal accounts of their lives, their families, their philosophies. However, there were a few who had recorded an evolving story and quit when it was done. For example, Garage on Granite Street, a series of posts by PrescottStyle that recorded the building of the city garage.

Not what you would expect in Prescott. A poet, Tasha, lists four blogs, one of which pairs a Brueghel painting with the matching poem by William Carlos Williams. It's another short-term blog; however, you can also visit her at Tasha's Blogging What-Not which is updated regularly. Yet another short-term read is Bob the Builder, who tells how he designed and built his local home (below.)

If you're interested in reading about more of the 240 Prescott bloggers, click on "view my complete profile" in the right hand column and then click again, this time on "Prescott". You'll find that after the first 35 or so listings, the blogs tend to be older and not updated recently (though that's not a hard and fast rule.) You'll also discover one of the dirty little secrets of those big numbers about the millions who are posting on the web -- far too many make one or two entries and then find something better to do, others choose a template and let it go without writing a word.

About the Meet-Up: 2:30 PM at The Raven over on Cortez Street in Prescott on Sunday, December 16.