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, October 24, 2009

Another three local critters

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Oh that I should be so lucky as to see, much less photograph the critters that friend Bob espies over in Mountain Club. In this particular b...
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Friday, October 23, 2009

GrannyJ meets a nomad blogger

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One of the rewards of blogging is the people you chance to meet. Strangers from your own town as well as people from the other side of the w...
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Thursday, October 22, 2009

About Lamb's huge flag

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As you motor over Bullwhacker Hill, heading into Prescott, you can't miss the giant flag that flies over the Lamb Chevrolet dealership. ...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

$ign of the times: empty job shop

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The store front looked empty to me; the Sson insisted that there was no reason to have any visible accoutrement in order to run a day labor ...
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Monday, October 19, 2009

Come on, guys, it's a Z

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My neighbor first caught the new spelling. Like me, he did not think to record a picture of one of the signs with the correct -- or at least...
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Sunday, October 18, 2009

Woodpecker woodwork

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If you look very closely, you may note a hole in the decorative wood tiles on a neighbor's house. Up toward the peak, in the darkest sha...
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Saturday, October 17, 2009

Oops! Blogger is not loading pix

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I was quite ready with pictures of recently discovered woodpecker holes in two neighbor's houses. Tried over and over to load, but Blogg...
Friday, October 16, 2009

Beaded bangles

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I seldom visit the western kitsch shoppes on Whiskey Row. However, sson had a request from his dotter for a prime Row item and off we went. ...
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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Oh, the irony of it all!

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You may recall that three years ago, Young's Farm held its final pumpkin-picking fall festival before signing papers for its Dewey acrea...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Checking out the mountain ride

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In the beginning, there was the Pinzgauer, which has been sitting at T Lo's, awaiting a mechanical once-over. This past weekend was a ho...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Thank you, one and all!

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Thank you, every one, for your thoughtful messages! I really appreciate your friendship. The blur is beginning to ease up, though I've h...
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Friday, October 09, 2009

Clearing the haze

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GrannyJ is recuperating from cataract surgery, ably assisted and being coddled by her visiting sson. Right now, she is kvetching about the ...
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Tuesday Morning on Tuesday

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It has been a good eight or nine months since I last visited Tuesday Morning, the high-end kitsch close-out mart. How could I pass up anothe...
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Smoke gets in your eyes

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And your lungs and everything smells of wood burning. Today, it was a control burn in the forest, south of Prescott. The wind decided to swi...
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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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