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• Season’s Greetings

  Dec 18, 2016 / 10 years agoNews

  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…

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• Desert Botanical Garden: Last visit for this year

  Dec 13, 2016 / 10 years agoNews

  While family and friends have been complaining about the wet and cold weather in Europe and people at the East Coast are facing severe snow storms and hundreds if not thousands of cancelled flight, we…

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• Another visit to the Desert Botanical Garden

  Oct 11, 2016 / 10 years agoNews

  Fall finally has arrived in Scottsdale with some cooler temperatures - the summer heat is over which allows us to spend more time outside again. Today I spent a couple hours at the Desert Botanical…

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• Walk at the Tempe Town Lake, AZ

  Oct 9, 2016 / 10 years agoNews

  Today we went for a short walk along Tempe Town Lake. Tempe Town Lake is a reservoir that occupies a portion of the often dry riverbed of the Salt River as it passes through the…

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• Monsoon

  Aug 7, 2016 / 10 years agoNews

  During the monsoon-, or summer thunderstorm season, Arizona experiences more severe weather than many other states and gets most of its well needed water. On some occasions, a severe storm may spawn a microburst. More…

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• Visiting the Desert Botanical Garden

  Jun 14, 2016 / 10 years agoNews

  The other day our Argentinian friend Flavia mentioned that the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix offers free admission every second Tuesday of every month - normally the fee is $22. Today at 7:00 a.m. I…

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