Tag: AZ

• Blooming Desert – Bartlett Lake

  Mar 11, 2017 / 10 years agoNews

  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…

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• Sunsets at Eldorado Park

  Mar 7, 2017 / 10 years agoNews

  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…

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• Christmas weekend in Arizona

  Dec 25, 2016 / 10 years agoNews

  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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• 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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• Escaping the heat – Mogollon Rim

  May 15, 2016 / 10 years agoNews

  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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