Christmas weekend in Arizona
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…
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Season’s Greetings
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
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
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
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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Visiting the Desert Botanical Garden
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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Escaping the heat – Mogollon Rim
It’s already the 2nd really hot weekend here in Scottsdale with temperatures in the triple digits again (38 to 40 Celsius). So we decide that it would be nice to go on a day trip…
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Happy landing in 2016
2015 turned out to be pretty 'boring' although challenging in some respects and there were not too many things worth blogging about. The first 3 months were kind of stressful, with Marco having a full…
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