by Jane St. Clair

Arizona desert songs are my tribute to my desert home in Tucson, Arizona. Stunning photographs of the desert and poetic essays about how you feel as you experience it.

Places You Can Visit in Tucson:

• Tucson: Cowboy Up! Cause We’re Talking Rodeo
• Biosphere 2 – The Strange, Sad Fantasy
• Happy Trails to You at Old Tucson
• Tucson Barrio Libre
• Arizona Sonora Desert Museum
• Tumamoc Hill, as in Go Take A Hike!
• Fourth Avenue
• Reid Park Zoo, Tucson, Arizona: Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!
• San Xavier Mission! Everybody comes to San Xavier
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragons – Pusch Ridge
• Tucson Museum of Miniatures
• Tohono Chul Park
• Stillness of the Forest/Teacher -The Saguaro National Monument
• The Oracle on Oracle Road
• Tucson Murals: Sensational Street Art
• Danza Mexicana! The Dance of Mexico
• Ted Degrazia: Mountaintop Man: His Life, His Art, His Way
• The International Wildlife Museum and the Gentle Art of Taxidermy
• Day of the Dead – Dia de Muertos Tucson Parade
• How Tucson Nabbed Public Enemy No 1: John Dillinger
• Tucson Architecture: Who Knew We Had It?
• Mount Lemmon Knows Your Name
• Romero Ruins: Ghost towns in Catalina State Park
• El Tiradito: Tucson’s Long Ago Opera
• Oracle State Park: Walking in Wilderness

Places You Can Visit Near Tucson

• A Godful Cosmic Wilderness: The Grand Canyon
• Standing on a Corner in Winslow, Arizona
• Daniel Barringer’s Colossal Mistake
• Arivaca, Amazing in its own way
• Phoenix’s Hole in the Rock
• Journey to the Center of the World
• The Time They Moved London Bridge to Lake Havasu City, AZ
• Walking Through Yosemite National Park with Mr. Muir
• Ansel Adams’ Yosemite in Black and White
• Silence and Awe: The Sequoia
• A Walk in the High Country – Ramsey Canyon
• Finding Mayer in the Rain
• Picacho State Park: Civil War Reenactment at Picacho Peak
• Tombstone, AZ: Tombstone and the Gunfight at the OK Corral
• Hotel Gadsden, Hotel Impossible in Douglas, Arizona
• Walnut Canyon, AZ: The People Who Live on the Ledges of Mountains
• Joshua Tree National Park, CA: Joshua Trees and the Battle of Jericho
• Cruising Death Valley At 123 Degrees in Summer
• Bisbee, AZ: Ghostbusters of Bisbee, Arizona
• Go, Big O! Arizona’s Great Ostrich Race!
• Bisbee, AZ: Ghost Adventures at the Copper Queen Hotel
• Sonoita, AZ: Cowboy Western Heritage Symposium in Sonoita, Arizona
• Phoenix: Halloween In Arizona: Spookiest Spread in the West
• Superior Arizona Won’t Give Up the Ghost
• Canoa Ranch: Biggest Spread in the Southwest
• Tumacacori Mission, And the Walls Kept Crumbling Down

The Beauty of the Arizona Desert

• Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and the Spirituality of Sunset
• Monsoon Diary – Storms over Tucson
• A Walk in the Sonoran Desert
• Going Down to the Lonely Desert and Sky
• Stopping By Desert Wildflowers On A Yellow Poppy Afternoon
• St. Francis Canticle to the Sun in Arizona
• Palo Verdes and A Southwest Desert Full Of Yellow Stars
• Saguaro Forest Silence, Saguaro Forest Solitude
• Navajo Blessingway Prayer — May You Walk In Beauty
• Windmills On My Mind
• Where Castles Come From
• Wabisabi Sonoran Desert
• Arizona Sunsets: What if I Went to the Same Spot Every Day to Watch them?
• Walking in Blue Skies Out West
• Watching Mountains Out West
• The St. Croix Cougar Belongs to the West
• The Noble Saguaro Cactus and Me Out West
• Someday I’ll Have A Field of Sunflowers
• In My Next Life I’ll be a Tree
• The Five Enchanted Worlds of the Yaqui
• The Secret Beauty of the Kachina
• Drip Drip Drop Little Desert Wash, Come with Your Beautiful Sound
• Butterflies for a Zen Day
• The Owls Next Door
• Hail Coyote Nation
• Just Wild About the Jaguar
• In Appreciation of Clouds
• Kokopelli and the Magic of Spiderwoman
• Dappled Things in Pied Beauty

The Seasons of the Sonoran Desert:

• Yellow Crayon Lights Sonora Spring
• White Heat, Desert Summer
• Bighorn Fire: The Day the Sky Went Up in Smoke
• Desert Spring, Desert April, Tucson, Arizona
• Monsoon Diary – Storms over Tucson
• Henry David Thoreau and New Year
• Martin Buber Can Change Your Life
• Mindfulness and the First Celebrity Chef
• An Arizona Thanksgiving
• Feliz Navidad! It’s An Arizona Christmas!
• Arizona Desert Snow – Snow So Rare
• The Desert Spring Whispers
• Southwest Doors … 1… 2 … 3 … Magic!
• A Song to John Denver: Poet, Mystic, Singer
• Our Lady of Guadalupe – the Southwest’s Most Beloved Lady
• Tucson’s Tale of Oleander and Boy Scouts

Silly Arizona Desert Songs:

• Grifting Along With the Tumbling Tumbleweeds
• Special to Arizona: How to Resuscitate a Lizard
• I Love Graffiti! When It’s Tangled like Spaghettii
• Go, Big O! Arizona’s Great Ostrich Race!
• Insects of the Sonoran Desert
• Weird Arizona
• Jackalopes and Sand Sharks: Legends of Old West Arizonaa
• The True-Life Factual Legend of Pecos Bill
• How to Find Fairies on the Sonoran Desert

Philosophers and Kings We Love

• St. Francis Canticle to the Sun in Arizona
• Thomas Merton on How to Have a Perfect Day
• What Would Emily Dickinson do? If she were here today?
• Brontes. Glass Town. Haworth. Video Games
• Ted Degrazia: Mountaintop Man: His Life, His Art, His Way
• Navajo Blessingway Prayer — May You Walk In Beauty
• How Tucson Nabbed Public Enemy No 1: John Dillinger
• Ansel Adams’ Yosemite in Black and White
• Ted Degrazia: Mountaintop Man: His Life, His Art, His Way
• Henry David Thoreau and New Year
• Martin Buber Can Change Your Life
• Mindfulness and the First Celebrity Chef
• A Song to John Denver: Poet, Mystic, Singer
• Oops that’s not the St. Therese Prayer

Animals of the Arizona Desert

• Big Horn Sheep and Why We Love Thema
• Jackalopes and Sand Sharks: Legends of Old West Arizonaa
• Special to Arizona: How to Resuscitate a Lizard
• Mourning Dove Drama Outside My Kitchen Window
• The St. Croix Cougar Belongs to the West
• Butterflies for a Zen Day
• The Owls Next Door
• Hail Coyote Nation
• Just Wild About the Jaguar
• Famous Rabbits I have Loved
• Big Hairy & Scary: All About Tarantulas