Went out for an early morning bike ride, and took this shot of one of my favorite views: the little camelhead on the hill overlooking Tempe Town Lake, with Four Peaks in the background. When I got home, I was greeted with three blooms on the “Easter Lily” (echinopsis oxygona) cactus on the front patio. […]
An Eclipse of Two Stars
It is my custom to geographically limit the topics for ScottsdaleTrails to within a day’s drive. However, I occasionally make exception…in this case because the trip began and ended in Scottsdale. And it’s technically a day’s drive, even though it’s a long one. By astronomical and cartographic coincidence, I was driving southward early Monday […]
When in Quartzite, stop and say “Hi Jolly!”
For most of us, the kooky little town of Quartzite, Arizona is just a fuel stop on the way to LA, and/or the winter motorhome capital of the world. I stopped there myself this morning to fill up, but I also took a very short detour off the main drag to say “Hi Jolly”… which […]