The beautiful-but-thorny bougainvillea is ubiquitous throughout the Southwest, so much so that I almost never notice them. The bright “bracts” (specialized colored leaves) surround and visually overwhelm tiny flowers that are so small as to require magnification to fully appreciate. The always-hard-to-spell (at least for me) name derives from French Navy admiral Louis Antoine de […]
100 Years Old: Scottsdale’s Charles Poston
I first got to know Charles and Carole Poston because of shared passion for neighborhood advocacy. I’d known them a few years before I discovered by happenstance that Charles and I are both US Air Force veterans. At one of their final reunions, I interviewed Charles and some of his compatriots from the WWII 1st […]
Works Progress Administration
I was cycling in North Tempe yesterday along an unusually narrow stretch of sidewalk along the west side of Mill Avenue north of Curry Road. I noticed a stamp in the concrete at the end of the more narrow section, as I was about to transition onto a wider, more modern bit of sidewalk, It […]