Walking Prescott

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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Where there's smoke...

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The other morning, I looked out my window on the side of the hill to this sight, part way up the hills to the north of the bowl that holds P...

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Ready for the firemen

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I'm an innocent when it comes to such matters as building codes and similar arcana. However, it is obvious, just looking at how commerci...

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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Needle fall

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It's wonderful to live in an forest of evergreens in winter. Though our deciduous trees are now bare skeletons, the ponderosa pines reta...

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Sunday, February 03, 2008

Control burns -- a necessary evil

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Living in a world that is always on the verge of drought, one becomes very, very sensitive to the sight of smoke. When we first moved to the...

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Saturday, January 27, 2007

A Sad Finish to an Historic Building

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The Coronado Apartment building at Montezuma and Willis was built shortly after the turn of the century as a boarding house for railroad wor...

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Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Rising from the Ashes

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Well, that's overstating the matter. What is fact is that back in March, when I was just learning to use the digital camera, what should...

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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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