Tag: arizona

• April 10, 2013

  Southwestern Wildlife Spotting: Volume 1

  The following are some accounts of wildlife I’ve seen since moving to California. This isn’t an exhaustive list, mostly just of those animals I’ve photographed, but there are a few I’ve ID’ed with no photo (which makes me sad… but still happy I saw them). Not all of the photos are fantastic, but they “work” […]
• March 19, 2013

  Painted Rock Petroglyphs

  This will be a short post. On the way back from Casa Grande we made a short detour to a places called Painted Rock Petroglyphs, in the Painted Rock mountains. The glyphs are from a wide age range, some ancient, some from a few hundred years ago and some from the 19th century. They are on […]
• March 18, 2013

  Well, I SAID I wanted to see the Sonoran Desert.

  So here’s the thing. I’ve been trying to go to as many national parks (or historic sites, as the case may be) this year as possible. I’m excited about my passport stampbook (as I’ve previously posted) and especially since we now live in the half of the country with all of the huge natural areas, […]
• March 17, 2013

  Casa Grande Ruins: an unexpected very neat thing

  In my quest to see national parks (and collect passport stamps from them!), I’ve made it a habit to check for any that are an easy drive from a place I might already be. In this case, J and I were in Casa Grande, Arizona, for the renaissance festival, and we kept seeing signs that […]
• March 16, 2013

  Driving to Arizona: No map? No problem! Unless you get detoured onto a historic highway…

  In the age of the GPS, I haven’t bothered in quite a while to buy a roadmap. I haven’t needed one in a long time, and even when I’ve lost GPS signal I have been either close enough to home not to need it, or in a relatively small place where it is difficult to […]