Walking Prescott

All about the flavor of a small mountain city and the surrounding outback: neighborhood surprises ... wildflowers and nature ... the forest ... people and events ... plus occasional comments on science fiction, music, and the Great Wide World Beyond

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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Cactus in our desert

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We're lucky, here in Prescott, to have our own lonesome and reasonably private desert, free from encroaching highways or Phoenicians. Ju...

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Sunday, April 13, 2008

Then and now

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In 2002, Westcliffe Publishers produced a coffee table book to lust for, Arizona Then and Now . Each page in the oversized book shows histor...

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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

The desert in bloom

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There! I've pulled together the wildflower shots from Sunday's expedition to the desert next the Santa Maria River (elevation, rough...

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Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Not All Desert Pictures Look Like Arizona Highways!

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The secret to those smashing Arizona Highways pictures is to avoid the midday sun -- like the plague. Get out in the early morning or late a...

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Friday, March 16, 2007

Yesterday's Big Trees

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In the city, they have defenders, these huge old cottonwoods do. Perhaps you remember that we had a few days of tree sitting at Willis and M...

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Granny J: one-time journalist well into her Social Security years; loved Chicago but I like the SW mountains equally well

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