Is it fabric art or is it a bed-warming quilt?
It is difficult to believe that the quite beautiful quilts at the 2026 Tucson Quilt Fiesta were ever intended to provide warmth to sleepers on …
Author: carollightwood
When is George Washington’s real birthday?
During Washington’s lifetime parts of Europe, including England and Virginia, changed the calendar being used from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. The old Julian …
Happy Australia Day! Love, Tucson
For Australians January 26th is the equivalent of our Fourth of July. It was on this day in 1788 that the first British colonists arrived …
Exploring Armory Park before air conditioning
Until the 1960s when air conditioning became readily available in Tucson homes which led to growth exploding in MidTown, the Armory Park Historic District was …
Two missing Barrios and a historic chapel
To start at the beginning: every time I visit Barrio Viejo it seems to have expanded and gentrified a few more blocks south and east. …
Whoa! What happened to the Wishing Spot?
I was in Barrio Viejo to photograph a church and on my way home I stopped at El Tiradito, the Wishing Spot, located at 420 …
Is Amazon really out? And is Elon really right?
Part 2 Yesterday, Tuesday, December 2nd, there was a report that Amazon had pulled out of Project Blue and that Beale was looking to Meta …
Happy Birthday, famous author Joseph Conrad!
I’m jumping the gun by one day with this cake image set among the sunflowers and blue skies of Ukraine. It is to honor the …
9 Data Centers already exist in Tucson. Is one near you?
Part 1 This is a multi-part post. More coming in Part 2. After hearing that greater Phoenix has the largest number of data centers of …
Navajo Wash doesn’t look like a park to me
The continuing legal action by the Hedrick Acres Neighborhood Association (HANA) against the City of Tucson about the trash created by homeless people living in …