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2010
When saguaros die, the "bones" of the cactus remain. I think they are beautiful, and put this one up on our back porch in Tucson Estates 2. ("Porch" is for the 90% of my readers who think "ramada" is some kind of hotel chain...) Mama Dove decided that the top "arm" of the saguaro ribs would ma...
05/30/2010
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If you're a regular on my blog, you know that I love the ephemeral beauty of any cactus bloom. Of course, I live in the desert southwest, and no one's surprised that Tucson is home to a wide variety of cacti. Nick Pappas lives in Huntsville, Alabama, but he used to live in snowy Wisconsin. Th...
05/24/2010
Your eyes don't deceive you. That's a purple cactus pad, laying there on top of my potting desk junk, and it's decided to BLOOM! No soil, no roots even. It hasn't been potted yet, so it can't "bloom where it's planted." I went outside after dark to see the stars, and a yellow downlight was shi...
05/17/2010
Each of these flowers is as big as your hand! The cactus is on the west side of our home; I planted it many years ago when our neighbors on that side invited us to their home for dinner. Standing at the neighbors' kitchen sink that evening, I looked out the window and saw that they had a prett...
05/15/2010
Who carries a fountain pen anymore? I lost this one somewhere in California on a business trip. I miss it; it was my favorite pen. Words bounce around in my head, and sometimes come together as a poem. When that happens, it's magical. I don't know any other word to describe the feeling when th...
05/15/2010
The Tucson Mountains in May: Warm, beautiful and inviting I stopped in Gates Pass on the way home last night to watch the setting sun paint the sky, and thought to myself "What a beautiful corner of the world this is!" You can tell from my blog that this is so, but sometime soon you'll want to c...
05/15/2010
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I've been blessed to have good friends in Oklahoma who are ranchers, and over the past 15 years, we've heard some tall tales about wildlife. I've never heard or seen anything like Marchel Peterson's story about a wild feral hog herding cattle, though. Thanks, Marchel! I hope the Colonel reads th...
05/13/2010
"If you don't have anything good to say, don't say it." Grandma Michael used to say that. (Yep. My first name was my Grandma's last name. Anna Torp Michael) The Arizona Daily Star serves a population of more than 1,000,000 people in Greater Tucson. It has no competition, and yet it's dying ...
05/12/2010
USDA Update: Although USDA Rural field offices in Arizona (and the rest of the country) are running very low on Guaranteed funds at the moment, this 100% program is not in danger of disappearing. SUNSTREET Mortgage LLC will continue to approve and close USDA loans subject to receipt of funding f...
05/12/2010
May 10, 2010 Bloomberg this morning shows the stock market in Europe up more than NINE PERCENT! Our markets will open in a little more than 90 minutes, and you can look for a rally in stocks after the beating the market took last Thursday and Friday. Look too for mortgage interest rates to rise...
05/10/2010
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