April picks up her color crayons and throws all of them away except for one, and then she colors it all yellow. Palo verde trees hang heavy with yellow, yellow falls all over their feet, yellow creates a carpet beneath them, as if it had snowed yellow snow.

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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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The Sinaqua people actually lived high up on the ledges of Walnut Canyon. How did they keep their toddlers safe? Why did they live up there in the first place? You’ll have to visit it!

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Personally I love rabbits. I’m always happy to come upon one, even though when a rabbit sees me, he’ll usually freeze and hide in plain sight like a two-year-old child. I love their bright black eyes and their round dewdrop bodies, punctuated by those unlikely Popsicle ears and big Clarabelle feet.

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by Jane St. Clair The Day of the Dead — or Dia de Muertos, as we call it in Tucson– comes after Halloween, but it’s even spookier. Every year hundreds of people gather downtown at night for the very very spooky All Souls Procession. Skeletons rise out of their graves– and they walk around, looking […]

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Everybody in Tombstone takes their LEGEND very very seriously. The actor who plays Doc Holliday quotes Shakespeare, while they play opera music during the reenactment. There are actually statues of all eight participants in their exact spots.This is serious stuff.

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In beauty may I walk
All day long may I walk
Through the returning seasons may I walk

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Arivaca has an interesting bar and café, La Gitano Cantina It’s a place where people have always a good time – even today, they have music and dancing. You’re supposed to be able to find bullet holes and bloodstains on the walls. Since the bartender not only used to serve drinks but also pull teeth with his pliers, the bloodstains may be from dental work. Who knows.

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Lake in Pinetop by Jane St. Clair I can’t think of anything as lovely as a late day afternoon by a lake. The way the long light slants and creates reflections. The way the color of shore flowers spill into the water in water colors. And then there’s how night is looming, approaching, and leaving […]

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Climbing up to Hole in the Rock Mountain is fairly easy. There are even man-made steps going up there, and it’s less than a third of a mile to the hole. Your award for climbing is a truly neat view of the city of Phoenix and its surrounding desert.

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