It was around ten years ago. Madera Canyon. Arizona. Just south of Tucson. We tent-camped in the small high-elevation campground near the end of the road. Early in the morning, shortly after sunrise, we drove down the canyon for coffee at a fast-food drive-through and then right back up again. A wonderful spot to photograph […]
Author: jim owens
Ah. Sigh. What a fun long weekend. We spent Memorial Day in Nashville, Tennessee. Not my idea. I was just tagging along. But a grand idea regardless. We were lucky with the weather and the layout of the town suits our desire to walk everywhere very well. We had a rental car which we didn’t […]
All of my teams are bad. The Chicago Cubs, Syracuse Men’s basketball, Paris Saint Germain, Barcelona, the Las Vegas Raiders and the Utah Jazz. Such a weird hodgepodge. Well perhaps they aren’t all bad, but none of them have much of a chance of allowing their fans to bask in the sweet warm sunshine of […]
Back north again and experiencing the reset that is a second Spring. One year we managed Spring in Grove City, Florida, followed by Southern Nevada, followed by Kihei, Hawaii, followed by Park City, Utah. That year of the four Springs is now established as something to work towards going forward. It was sort of accidental […]
Ahhhh. Spring has sprung here in Southern Nevada. Ain’t life grand. The backyard critters are doing their Disney-cartoon-themed thing. Desert cottontails, jackrabbits, antelope ground squirrels, small lizards and gambel’s quail are darting in and out and hurriedly criss-crossing the yard. The chipmunk-like squirrels are particularly active munching on petunias, then climbing the ephedra and stripping […]