I keep saying I'm done with these lemons, but I keep finding uses for this amazing fruit!  Mackenzie found a great non-edible use for le...

Arizona Fiery Sunset , a photo by straddlingthegap on Flickr. Winter is tough other places, but it usually gives us the best sunsets. I...

Beautiful Day! , a photo by straddlingthegap on Flickr. Finally winter weather as it should be in Arizona.

We were in the Verde Valley area of Arizona during Labor Day Weekend.  The Verde Valley is in Central Arizona, south of Sedona and about 90 ...

Last week I attended a legal conference on water law.  The conference was fairly mundane, my third consecutive year of attending this confer...

I love flowers.  I love taking pictures of flowers, even if I'm just using my cellphone.  When I lived in the Midwest, I remember being ...

Today begins Lent, the season that prepares Christians for the commemoration of the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  We s...

Some of you may have read that we traveled to California last week for a choral festival in San Juan Capistrano.  While the kids were in reh...

While everyone in the rest of the country has been celebrating Valentine's Day today, here in Arizona we are starting a centennial birth...

When we moved to Arizona, the only critter I was concerned about was a rattle snake.  That was 16 years ago.  We live in a suburban area a b...

The desert has so many unusual and beautiful plants . This is a Teddy Bear Cholla (choi-yah).   It is also called a Jumping Cholla beca...

I love Arizona.  When we moved into our house, I noticed the previous owner planted about 25 rose bushes.  I'm not as good at maintainin...

That pink glow is a snowstorm about 70 miles away. I'm so blest.  I get to see this view every day on my way home.  Today I just had...