Entries Tagged as 'Arizona photography'

Hotel Gadsden, Hotel Impossible in Douglas

January 17th, 2014 · No Comments

Look closely at the staircase at the Hotel Gadsden in Douglas, AZ. You’ll find a chip in Step #7 – made by none other than the outlaw and liberator Pancho Villa. In 1916 Villa and his horse stormed into the town of Douglas and then he rode his animal up these stairs, making the chip you can still see today.

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In My Next Life I Want to be A Tree

November 21st, 2013 · No Comments

Trees are just there. Trees are just happy all day long – not wanting or striving or doing, just being, and constantly changing, alive and wonderful.The poet Wallace Stevens wrote, “Let be be the finale of seem.” He might have been writing about ice cream, but he might as well have been writing about trees.

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Tags: Arizona · Arizona photography · AZ · Jane St. Clair · nature essay · Oro Valley · Tucson Sonoran Desert · Tucson Tourist Events

Dia de Muertos — The Day of the Dead!

October 25th, 2013 · No Comments

While I always like the kiddie party trick-or-treat spirit of Halloween, the grotesque images of the Day of the Dead used to creep me out. I mean, skeletons! Then a friend originally from Mexico took the time to explain Dia de Muertos to me.

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Tags: Arizona · Arizona photography · AZ · Day of the Dead · Dia de Muertos · Jane St. Clair · Oro Valley

Watching Mountains in the Catalinas of Arizona

August 14th, 2013 · No Comments

I didn’t know mountains have individual spirits, and that, as the Chinese say, some are charming enough to attract dragons. I also didn’t know mountains are always dancing with the clouds and the sky — complicated dances more tango than waltz, more grande ballet than two-step.

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Someday Sunflowers

July 12th, 2013 · No Comments

Someday I will have a field of sunflowers. I would never put them in a vase because they are too big and they belong in a sunflower field after all. They are too big and electric with light and sun to go into a vase. Van Gogh knew that, which is why he got so crazy just drawing a simple vase full of simple sunflowers.

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Tags: Arizona · Arizona photography · Jane St. Clair · nature essay

Superior Arizona Won’t Give Up The Ghost

June 9th, 2013 · No Comments

Superior, Arizona looks like a movie set from the 1950s. It’s perfect for a science fiction movie in which something terrible just happened!

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Arizona Desert Snow, Snow So Rare

April 9th, 2013 · No Comments

Arizona desert snow is rare . I have forgotten the sound of snow because even rain is rare in the desert. I have forgotten how snow can transform the Arizona mountains into some icy moonscape that belongs in a galaxy far, far away, and I have forgotten how snow settles into spaces I ordinarily overlook,

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Tags: Arizona · Arizona photography · Jane St. Clair · nature essay · Oro Valley · Tucson · Tucson Sonoran Desert · Tucson Tourism · Tucson Tourist Events

Grifting Along with the Tumbling Tumbleweeds

January 23rd, 2013 · No Comments

The other day I found out that Europeans are crazy about tumbleweeds from Arizona. They’ll pay $25 for a small one and $50 for a big one — as long as they are genuine Arizona tumbleweeds. So –today at the Tucson Mall I saw a great big humongous tumbleweed nestled next to a potted plant in front of Sears and about to roll into the parking lot, it was just like finding $50 cash! I couldn’t let it go tumbling to waste! I am also selling jeans worn in Arizona and totillas made for cowboys to eat in Arizona.

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Get Your Rodeo On, Tucson Cowboys!

February 18th, 2011 · No Comments

Tucson Rodeo comes only once a year but it’s the biggest time of the year. Schools and businesses close, so everybody can cowboy up and go down to the arena.

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Arizona Cowboys Gather for Cowboy Symposium

November 14th, 2010 · No Comments

Cowboys sing about trusting your compadres as if your life depends on it because it does. They sing about how being dog tired at the end of the day makes you appreciate things other people look down on — like a mess of beans seasoned with coffee and chili peppers, a little whiskey and your bunk under the stars. They sing about a life led outdoors under the sun, in the rain and snow, under a sky too big to understand.

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