Photography is my hobby, one I enjoy very much. After I have the photos though, then what do I do with them? Sharing adds to my enjoyment, a...

Before I post the last of the Arizona desert posts, I decided to cover one more aspect of sexuality and the United States as it seems to fit...

We in the United States live in a rather odd country for how it sees things. On the one hand, sexuality sells everything from toothpaste to ...

Back home on the Oregon farm, with so many photos to sort through, I began to get a case of can't-do-it-itis . I mean a few don't te...

Anyone who regularly reads this blog knows I have a thing about full moons. We just experienced an Equinox full moon sometimes called the Aw...

When visiting Tucson, I almost always make one trip south of town to San Xavier del Bac, the White Dove of the Desert. It was a mission chur...

Earlier, I mentioned seeing the bobcat one morning as she appeared to be running home to the wash just after first light. When my husband wa...

Having just finished Jon Krakauer's book, Under the Banner of Heaven , I have done some thinking about spirituality. Add to it the relig...

Just after first light, as I open the blind, I see an animal out beyond the cactus. The way it leaps through the air as it runs, it might be...

Having enjoyed it, I wouldn't want anyone to miss Camile Paglia's column in Salon. I liked her take on Hillary and the red phone but...

Unfortunately as more people move to Tucson, more desert gets bulldozed, leaving a flat and easy surface for house building. People, who cam...

Although I agree with some who have written how disillusioned they are with politics, I still believe there is hope-- even though some appea...

Peggy Noonan is always worth reading, but her column this week was particularly insightful, I thought. Peggy Noonan-- Over the Top . Her las...

Everybody goes through dark times, times of depression, of feeling upset and sometimes with no idea of why. It just happens. Sometimes, like...

As anyone who reads this blog knows, I did not go to bed happy last night, nor awake happy when I checked the news. I hoped I'd be wrong...

Desert dwellers eagerly await the first spring wildflowers. The season will be dissected in the newspapers. A good yea r, a less than good y...