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Getting the Covid 19 vaccine in Tucson: a true story
Arizona / Tucson

Getting the Covid 19 vaccine in Tucson: a true story

by carollightwoodFebruary 9, 2021February 10, 2021

Like millions of other people in a high risk category, I was eager to get the Covid 19 vaccine after 11 months of isolation in …

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Let’s have a big hand for Elvis!
Art in Tucson / Tucson

Let’s have a big hand for Elvis!

by carollightwoodJanuary 29, 2021July 19, 2021

Or maybe two. I had driven by this mural, above, on Fort Lowell Road dozens of times, but it wasn’t until I stopped to take …

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The Messenger sculpture in east Tucson
Art in Tucson / Nature in Tucson / Tucson

The Messenger sculpture in east Tucson

by carollightwoodJanuary 21, 2021July 19, 2021

Taking a drive out to the Eastside of Tucson finally came up near the top of my To-Do list. So on one relentlessly sunny day …

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Painted Ladies gentrify historic Barrio Viejo
architecture in Tucson / Tucson

Painted Ladies gentrify historic Barrio Viejo

by carollightwoodDecember 29, 2020August 29, 20252

Just south of downtown Tucson is the Barrio Viejo which was built between the 1860s and the early 1900s by newcomers heading West after the …

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Stolen Yoda restored along with Darth Vader
Festivals in Tucson / Tucson

Stolen Yoda restored along with Darth Vader

by carollightwoodDecember 23, 2020December 30, 20202

Since the 1960s the neighborhood of Winterhaven in Tucson has done a Christmas decoration Festival of Lights. Block after block of over-the-top decorated homes and …

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Cactus Christmas mashup with La Catrina Lady of the Dead
Art in Tucson / Nature in Tucson / Tucson

Cactus Christmas mashup with La Catrina Lady of the Dead

by carollightwoodDecember 20, 2020August 1, 2025

The Tucson Botanical Garden seems to be throwing everything into the mix for this year’s holiday season. They have 3 Christmas trees plus Korean fabric …

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Tucson history mural from 14,000 years ago until now
Art in Tucson / Tucson

Tucson history mural from 14,000 years ago until now

by carollightwoodNovember 11, 2020August 1, 2025

On the walls of a Tucson Electrical Power station is a four panel mural depicting the history of Tucson area going back to before humans …

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Undersea Nemo Mural has Surprising Models
Art in Tucson / Tucson

Undersea Nemo Mural has Surprising Models

by carollightwoodNovember 2, 2020August 1, 2025

It’s official name, according to the artist Joe Pagac, is “Harboring Beauty”. Around Tucson, however, it’s known as the Finding Nemo mural. It takes up …

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Another wild Tucson mural and one that may vanish
Art in Tucson / Nature in Tucson / Tucson

Another wild Tucson mural and one that may vanish

by carollightwoodOctober 29, 2020August 1, 2025

Biking across the open desert on this Joe Pagac mural are a rattlesnake, a road runner and a horned lizard hanging on for dear life. …

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Rillito Bend mural is wildly more than it appears
Art in Tucson / Nature in Tucson / Tucson

Rillito Bend mural is wildly more than it appears

by carollightwoodOctober 22, 2020September 23, 2021

Dedicated in March of 2020, the mural to mark a southern side of the Rillito Bend neighborhood was created by a now-retired certified nurse midwife, …

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