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

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Visitors from The Google

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The Google giveth: information , visitors. All it asks in return: information, images. And I am continually fascinated by what brings strang...
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Friday, January 18, 2008

Aspen in Winter

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All is white but the buds, getting ready for spring leafing -- good reason quaking aspen are a favorite landscape plant in northern Arizona....
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Thursday, January 17, 2008

Moore's Law* in action

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Opening boxes and drawers to get supplies for a knitting project, I came across a brittle, rolled up, yellowed piece of newsprint that had w...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Brrrr!

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Our landmark Thumb Butte doesn't look all that cold. Just because one can't see much of the north side from town. On the other hand,...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Words & Music

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For the past couple of years, as Mom's short-term memory has slowly eroded, I've found that she really enjoys having me read poetry...
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Monday, January 14, 2008

One of the Y's went missing

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It was that kind of a day. I waited for a ride that didn't arrive. Tried to order some of those fixed postage boxes from the USPS and ha...
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Sunday, January 13, 2008

Bach. Stained Glass.

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What more could one ask of a Sunday afternoon. As long as I was in Lutheran territory (visiting Mom at Samaritan Village), why not cross the...
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Saturday, January 12, 2008

I'm back -- sorta

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Which is to say that my trusty, not-so-reliable iMac is in the hospital. As I said earlier, I am working on a loaner, with neither DVD play...
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008

The fatal touch of the Consumer Electronics Show

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Howdy, all--This is OmegaMom reporting in for GrannyJ. It seems that this year, as last year, when her computer guru guy headed off to the ...
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

If pigs could fly...

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So I was in my office this afternoon, minding my own business and I heard noises up on the roof. Aha, sez I to myself, I'm going to catc...
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Monday, January 07, 2008

Hats 'n heels

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On a wet, chill, snowy, drizzly day, my thoughts naturally turn to warm things. Like last summer when I had some great shoots with the Niece...
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Sunday, January 06, 2008

The misadventures of Lowe's

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On the left, the modest manufactured homes of retirees in Prescott Canyon Estates. To the right, the denuded hillsides that surround the new...
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Saturday, January 05, 2008

Gifts of winter

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Not that winter is my favorite season, mind you. Oh, no -- I'm still in the process of shaking down a new heating system that's chal...
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one-time journalist well into her Social Security years; loved Chicago but I like the SW mountains equally well
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