Today is another free day at the Desert Botanical Garden - we leave early to avoid the crowds and the heat later in the day. Spring has definitely arrived - many plants and shrubs are…

After getting a lot more rain than usual in the past few months and especially last fall, we experience a beautiful Spring - even here in the desert. Now is the time when the flowers…

Eldorado Park is an outdoor sanctuary offering fishing lakes, a pool & fields for sports such as softball & soccer - it is just around the corner from where we live. In recent days we…

A little more than a year ago my dad got diagnosed with an elevated PSA level. His doctor told him "nothing to worry about this can happen at your age. We will check it out…

The last few days already brought some rain showers and mostly overcast skies and for Christmas the whole western part of the US is hit by a heavy winterstorm - higher elevations got up to…

Looking back at 2016, I would summarize the year as follows: very few new pictures from Marco despite a new camera, very few miles on our car and lots of hours behind the computer for…