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

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Again, Painted Walls

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As readers know already, I'm quite taken by walls that are painted with more than the usual can't-see-me colors. I like R.E.D. a...
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Local Links of the Day

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I have an affection for those old WPA guides to various states written in the 30s as make-work projects during the Depression. They are grea...
Saturday, November 18, 2006

Come Away With Me In My Merry...Buick?

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A vehicle that predated me by a good decade or more disappeared up the hill on a little road. Knowing the road deadended, I dashed back. A ...
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Friday, November 17, 2006

Swamp or Cienega? Cienega or Swamp?

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You pays your money and you takes your choice. We have one pretty close to the Square. Not quite what you'd expect in this dry country! ...
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Link of the Day

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Here's a link to those places that may haunt your dreams or, perhaps, entice you as you drive through an old Rust Belt city. Abandoned f...
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Thursday, November 16, 2006

Back to SW Basics: Native Seeds Search

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Today's occasion was a book signing and lecture -- not the usual way I spend an afternoon. However, it was over at Prescott College'...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

PostSecrets Prescott

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I entered our new-fangled, up-to-date library this evening to attend a meeting. Not enough time to take pictures for a proper blog posting. ...

Local Link of the Day

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About six weeks ago, I had an email from my daughter, telling me about the absolutely yummy apples she had picked up from ground under some ...
Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Are These the Last Leaves of Autumn?

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I thought I could be done with autumn in Prescott tonight. No such luck. Too many beautiful red leaves remain (and you know how I groove on ...
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Links of the Day

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Fireworks-plus. That's the offering tonight. First, a site with 165 pix from Burning Man , the counter-culture arts festival on the Bl...
Monday, November 13, 2006

Streets of Confusion

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How come street names are always changing in Prescott, huh? Like our most famous chameleon street, Grove-Miller Valley- Willow Creek. My pre...
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Local Link of the Day

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Read it and weep! Sunday's AZ Republic featured an article predicting/saying/warning that Phoenix is on the march north and south, to ...
Sunday, November 12, 2006

Visualize Radio???

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Well, of course. Radio is all about visualization. Your very own visualization. Whether it's a private mental picture of that cozy littl...
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Local Link of the Day

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I promised the cab driver that I would post this URL some time today; it is such a choice site that any local reader who doesn't visit t...
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Saturday, November 11, 2006

Yesterday's Bikes

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Being as how Prescott is a beautiful little mountain city, it follows that there might be some interesting highways to reach it. And indeed...
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Friday, November 10, 2006

Local Link of the Day

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This is one really neat resource. If you read the Prescott Courier , you know that it publishes a weekly column called "Days Past"...

A Local Secret -- Yes, There Is a Bus Route!

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Read recently about another one of those Civic Task Force affairs in the local press. Subject: urban mass transportation. Needed for the Tri...
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