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On the water
I am not easy on water, having never learned to swim, flunking even the lessons in floating that I had as a small child at the swimming pool in Ft. Madison. The thought of being on water makes me...
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Collecting the new Mentzelia
I stay close behind Melissa. She walks up the desert wash in Chaco sandals and a skirt. Her steps are swift and balanced. It is difficult for me to match her pace. She walks through the creek. I...
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Butterflies at Gedney Creek
Thousands of bright yellow and black swallowtail butterflies stream from water puddles. They are massed in the roadside gutter and alight at our approach. I can’t help hitting a few as we drive up...
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2 July A hawk cries. While this is not unusual in our neighborhood, the cries of hawks this summer have been nearly continuous. The cry I hear as I arrive home from work comes from a hawk that soars...
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Two evenings
I am again on the road. In a high valley between red mesas and conifer-covered mountains in southern Utah, I find a campsite among apple trees. I park in the shade between two of the trees. My site...
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Exiting a ring of hell
It’s about 8.00 pm when I get to Phoenix, where I will spend the night and then pick-up A at the airport in the morning. I don’t have a destination in the city, except to find a hotel for the night,...
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Amado
It’s Sunday morning, but there are no people at the Universal Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ, Inc in Amado, Arizona. The Church’s empty parking lot is still moist from rain in the night. The heat...
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Old West Books, Tombstone
Under normal circumstances I would drive through a place like Tombstone, Arizona, while trying as much as possible to ignore it; however, I don’t do that today. Why the special day? I happened to...
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Desert rain
We drive a desert highway in the rain. Water sprays from the wheel wells of on-coming cars. The truck feels as if it floats. Rivulets of water run down the highway, following the straight channels...
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