Blooming Desert – Peralta Canyon
Today we explore a different area that promises a nice blooming: Peralta Canyon, which is about 40 miles from here and east of Mesa. Legend suggests that the Peralta family from Mexico established a gold…
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Spring has arrived at the Desert Botanical Garden
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…Read MoreBlooming Desert – Bartlett Lake
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…Read MoreSunsets at Eldorado Park
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…Read MoreChristmas 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…Read MoreDesert 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…Read MoreAnother 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…Read MoreWalk 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…Read More
