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One of the surprisingly delightful Tucson experiences is the monsoon. Monsoons are summer storms, often arriving in the afternoon, accompanied by displays of lightning and thunder. As a result of these storms, we experience a second spring. Plants are renewed … Continue reading →

  Petroglyph or pictograph? Goat or deer? Just an hour’s hike from Starhaven, at the base of the Santa Catalina mountains, we found a trove of petroglyphs and pictographs left behind by Native Americans.  It was a hot, slow hike–but … Continue reading →

During the refurbishing of Starhaven, my husband and I traveled back and forth between Tucson and Sacramento. This involved either a two-day-each-way caravan with four dogs in the Toyota Tundra or, for shorter trips, a flight from Sac International to … Continue reading →

The first thing we did after closing, was to buy some patio furniture so we could begin to enjoy those summer evenings in the desert. It took months to get the holes fixed, but in the meantime, we decided that … Continue reading →

Just before Starhaven closed, we discovered that she was riddled with polybutylene pipe. This meant that at any time, we might experience a flood of epic proportions in our dining room, bedroom, or office. (See http://ag.arizona.edu/azwater/awr/nov94/leaks.html or see http://www.repipenews.com/). We … Continue reading →

  Our first adventure was finding a place that hit that sweet spot with both my husband and I. We had lived in Sacramento, California for about fifteen years. Our Curtis Park home, a lovely early 20th century cottage in … Continue reading →

It’s been a few months since I set up this blog and I have not yet posted anything substantive. Welcome to the world of bloggery, I guess! “So,” you might ask, “why Tucson?” Well, in the early fifties, my father … Continue reading →