I took this photo about a mile from our condo about two miles from the Phoenix Mountain Preserve. It is a three legged coyote. He or she seemed to be doing okay. Life is good....Read More
On Sunday Nurit and I followed up on a lead from Peter and found the rare and very old third order Saguaro Cactus. It has a branch off the trunk and then a branch off the branch and then finally a bra...Read More
When asking someone to do a task for the first time you’re expectations should be low even if your explanation is perfect. I took this photo of a “Mountain Unicycle” today in the Phoenix Mountai...Read More
Picacho Noun: Spanish word for peak. So the mountain near Tucson named “Picacho Peak” is redundant. Example: Picacho Peak is a famous picacho....Read More
“I got lucky and saw a Desert Tortoise.” Or said another way: “I have hiked in the desert enough so that statistically I was likely to see a Desert Tortoise.”...Read More
Walking down the circumference trail at Piestewa on Sunday September 29 I saw this odd pile of stones. I have walked by this spot at least 100 times in the past two years. The original photo before I ...Read More
If you look carefully at the photo above near the center you can see the round towers of a Norman castle. The photo was taken from the patio of our wonderful rental house in Charnay. Here is the castl...Read More
Pleasant surprises are the spice of life. On our tour in Normandy with Country Walkers we had several extremely pleasant surprises. One was on the second day when they they told us in the briefing tha...Read More
At Cortez Park in Phoenix I came across this stone sculpture. It has a henge-like quality. The park is on the Arizona Canal at about 35th Avenue. I have been walking the canals...Read More
Well the hiking season with the Leisure Hikers of Brandeis has ended and it was another great year. There were of course some “porcupines,” but it was a very nice group with a shared inter...Read More