flowers growing happy in the sun
from every window in the back of the house i can look out over the city 1,000 feet below. the house is each stucco, big and on a hillside peppered liberally with cacti of varying kinds. the city is flat, sparkly at night and i see the squares where the roads divide it. hooray for land grant states. it was 80 degrees today. sunny. bright. a few
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One bright reason why Tucson/Arizona in general rocks:
When it's 115 degrees in the shade in August, you can drive for an hour and be in 65 degree weather, surrounded by bears and pine trees and streams and pretty alpine things. Yay, Mt. Lemmon. Sadly, everyone else gets the same idea. Soooo...
You go to Payson. Or the White Mountains. Or anywhere on the Mogollon Rim (Mow-gee-on). Sedona's far better than Santa Fe. Santa Fe is for artisans and snobs, not normal people. Phoenix makes Tucson look like a pimple on the map. Tucson the most well-planned city in the Western United States. I lurve it as well. Check out Loew's Ventana Canyon Resort sometime for dinner. I know the general manager. He's my cousin's father-in-law, and I stayed there in May. It's a-maz-ing.
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