CBWC: All About Nature From the backyard and the mass of feeders intended to bring the wild things here to the deserts of Arizona.
Arizona
HOT OR COLD
CBWC: Hot or Cold One hot, one cold. It turns out to be hard to show hot than to show cold in black and white.
MOUNTAINS HIGH
WQW #31: Mountains – Nature’s Peace I grew up in low rolling hills, spent a decade atop a mountain on which Jerusalem sits, and now am back in the low rolling hills of south central Massachusetts. I’ve spent vacations in many… Read More ›
BEST OF THE OLD WEST – GARRY ARMSTRONG
“Lock n’ load” was the political slogan of a presidential candidate I was covering in the ’80’s. He wore a white Stetson and a gold string tie over his flowered cowboy shirt. As a reporter, I was objective and clear-headed…. Read More ›
AND HELL’S COMING WITH ME …
Sometimes, you need to see the good guys win. Shoot some bad guys. Because sometimes, you wish you could shoot those bad guys, but you’re just not that kind of gal. This is our wild west justice fix. Wyatt Earp:… Read More ›
BLACK & WHITE LANDSCAPES
CBWC: In the Distance This is work I almost always do in color, so finding pictures in black and white was interesting. But there are so many pictures, pretty much everything is there. I just have to find it.
MOVIES WHOSE DIALOGUES YOU CAN QUOTE? GREAT QUESTION!
Fandango’s Provocative Question #148 If ever a question was aimed at Garry rather than me, this has got to be it. I’m going to answer it today. Garry has some kind of interview with a radio station about Boston busing —… Read More ›
DIRT
CFFC: Sand or Dirt Mostly the desert around Phoenix and one beach in Ogunquit, Maine.
CLIMATE CHANGES ARE US
Fandango’s Provocative Question #131 There is no serious dispute by anyone that humans hold significant responsibility for damaging Earth’s ecology. You can’t label water pollution or unbreathable air as caused by anything the earth does to itself — short of being… Read More ›
THE LAST OF THE SILVER SCREEN COWBOYS – THE GARRY VERSION
“Lock n’ load” was the political slogan of a presidential candidate I was covering in the ’80’s. He wore a white Stetson and a gold string tie over his flowered cowboy shirt. As a reporter, I was objective and clear-headed…. Read More ›
PALM TREES IN THE DESERT
Palm trees in Phoenix The last time I saw palm trees was in Arizona. I can’t imagine how they are doing — if they are surviving — the extreme heat and dryness this year, but I hope they will live… Read More ›
IT’S HOT IN ARIZONA – PHOTO BY BEN TAYLOR
Pictures from our friend Ben who lives in Phoenix where it is 115 degrees. This was his view of the sun the other day. He was able to point his camera right at the sun to get this shot. It… Read More ›
CAN I RETIRE FROM RETIREMENT?
We keep planning vacations. The problem? We are retired, so vacations are not much different than life. If we had more money and could travel, maybe that would be different, but prices have gone up, we’ve had a year plus… Read More ›
CFFC: THE BIG HOLE AND OTHER WHOLE STUFF
CFFC: Hole or Whole HOLE: Just the really big one! I couldn’t find a single hole, pit, ditch or anything even close to it. But i did find the biggest hole I’ve ever seen — The Grand Canyon locally (as in… Read More ›
SHARING MY WORLD AS “THE ELECTION” APPROACHES
Share Your World 10-27-2020 It’s hard to believe that we are ending the tenth month of this year. One helluva year. We never imagined it would be this bad, this long, this ugly, this scary. Anxieties are high and many… Read More ›
WHERE’S MY SHIP? By Marilyn Armstrong
I was out in Arizona talking to a Blue Corn Navajo lady who made jewelry. She had carefully given me her tribal affiliations and all I had to say was “Eastern European Jewish,” which lacked panache. I don’t seem to… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 