Ok. That bit about saguaros was only half-true
The subscribe-info for this blog mentions saguaros (Carnegiea gigantea) and implies that you won’t read about them here. Well, that was the case before the …
Author: carollightwood
A Day at the Rillito Horse Races
According to a notice on the Rillito Horse Races website, Quarter horse racing originated in at the Rillito Racetrack. As someone who has only been …
Artificial Intelligence can be dangerous to health
The Science College at the University of Arizona offers 4 free science lectures on Tuesday evenings in February. At the first lecture I attended a …
Hecho en Mexico right here in Tucson
While I was out scouting fruit trees at a local nursery for an upcoming post on my gardening site, Hot Gardens, I spent a few …
Javelina Madness at the Tubac art festival
The slogan for the tiny village (pop.1190) of Tubac, Arizona is “Where Art and History Meet”. Maybe a better slogan would be where art and …
Wild horses and braying burros for sale
The very controversial Bureau of Land Management, more commonly known in the West as the BLM, held an equally controversial sale of wild horses and …
Museum Sunday with steel drums and Oaxacan folk art figures
After hearing the Tucson High Magnet School steel drum band outside the Tucson Museum of Art I began to wish that there had been a …
Best French fries, a pretty good milkshake followed by a search by the Border Patrol
On my way south of Tucson to visit the Tumacacori Historical National Park I noticed a large Border Patrol checkpoint spanning the northbound lanes of …
Snow on the Santa Catalina Mountains outside Tucson
You can drive right up to the top of the Santa Catalina Mountains but maybe not today. The police have blocked access on the Catalina …
Tintypes, glass cactus and garden towers at the Agustin Mercado Street Fair
It’s rainy today–Christmas Eve–in Tucson, but last weekend at the open air fair at the Agustin Mercado the weather was lovely. Sunny and crisp enough …