It's January 5 (Happy New Year, Everybody!) and here in Tucson that means cardinals. For many years now, we've had a mated pair of cardinals nesting in our pomegranate tree. My husband spotted the female earlier today, and one of my stepsons spotted the male, so we know they have arrived for their annual visit. Given that it's been close to ten ( Read more... )

One of my local friends, Monica Spigelman, has written a great article about things to do in and around Tucson, in response to a New York Times article on the same topic. Both articles have plenty of fun things to do, but Monica's is a great way to see parts of Tucson that many visitors may miss. If it comes to that, there are a few things on the ( Read more... )

Yesterday, museums around the country participated in Museum Day, an event connected to Smithsonian Magazine, in which they opened their doors to some visitors* for free. My husband, Karl, and I took advantage of this to visit a new museum here in Tucson, The Mini-Time Machine Museum of Miniatures, which turned out to be based on the miniatures ( Read more... )

As mentioned in a previous post, the local library is sponsoring workshops on "The Fantastic in Word and Image."

Here's the library's description of tomorrow's workshop:

This is the second of three workshops where you'll hear trade secrets from veteran fantasy, science-fiction and comic book writers and artists ( Read more... )

If you're local to the Tucson area, you might be interested in the series of three workshops hosted by the Pima County Public Library that starts tomorrow (Saturday, September 20, 2008), with the theme: Fantastic in Word and Image: Author and Artist Workshops and Contests ( Read more... )

Tucson gets magnificent sunsets, but every once in a while we get one so extraordinary it's hard to believe. This evening, we had one of those. I managed to capture it on my cell phone, and while the quality isn't great, I'm going to share, because this is the kind of thing that's hard to believe.


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