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From the lens A Garden in the Desert?.

  • LilMonkey Mar 21, 2012 @ 10:44 pm | delete
    I live in the Phoenix area for 4 years now, and I think you just about covered everything that will grow here. We love our cactus garden, rose garden, vegetable garden, flowering trees and even wisteria both at our front door and back patio. I think people don't realize how much we can grow in AZ. Beautiful photos
  • hysongdesigns Jun 4, 2011 @ 2:13 pm | delete
    very nice lens! Love your garden pics and your lightening at sunset photo looks like the world is already on fire. I'm about 90 miles east of Phoenix so a little cooler than you are but have many of the same problems.
  • HarmonyArtMom Feb 14, 2011 @ 10:43 am | delete
    This is a wonderful lens! Thank you so much for the beauty you share from your Arizona world. We love to visit the desert and this brings back so many memories of our hikes. I enjoyed reading your story and seeing your images.
    Adding to my favorites, lensrolling to my desert lens, and adding a special Angel Blessing.
  • WhitU4ever Jul 20, 2010 @ 1:44 pm | delete
    The highest AZ temperature this summer has been 118 degrees! That's the price we pay for year-long flowers. Woohoo!

    The monsoons are trying very hard to hit this area, but none so far. Usually they hit around mid-June, but the clouds just burn away by noon, adding humidity to the heat. That makes 118 degrees feel like 125 degrees. Simply put, if you want to commit suicide, just go outside! ;)
  • LGierran Jun 16, 2009 @ 6:51 pm | delete
    I lived in Phoenix for all of 1990 and the first quarter of 1991 (first in Paradise Valley, then in the South Phoenix/Tempe area), and got to see all the various seasons. Summers seemed quite bizarre to this East Coast native--daytime temps over 120 degrees; cooling down to 85 or 90 at night (which actually felt GOOD); and every three or four nights, a flash flood from the Gulf, lightning/thunder and all, putting a foot of water on the roads, making it darn near impossible to drive (their streets don't drain too well). I love desert ecosystems (I've also lived in Wyoming); but apparently the non-native plants in Phoenix have raised the pollen counts rather drastically, making it a bit difficult for folks who originally moved down there for the low-pollen environment...anyway, lovely pics and all! Good luck with the gardens...
  • mbgphoto Jun 11, 2009 @ 8:32 am | delete
    Wow--I've only been to Arizona briefly (on business meetings) and didn't realize the beauty in the state. Thanks for sharing your beautiful photos! Love your gardening story too!
  • Cari_Kay Jun 10, 2009 @ 5:16 pm | delete
    LOL, this so reminds me of my lemon trees I tried to keep up north. Such a beautiful lens!
  • TheWhistler Jun 10, 2009 @ 4:43 pm | delete
    Very impressive lens. Thank you.
  • WhitU4ever Apr 21, 2009 @ 9:10 am | in reply to susannaduffy | delete
    [in reply to susannaduffy] Thank you for the angel blessing, Susanna-love! Congrats, angel! I know that an angel blessing from you can be nothing but sincere. Thank you so much.

    Oh, I went back to get a rhubarb plant so that we could be growing it from both sides of the earth, as promised, but they had stopped selling it. I'm still looking for one, but it's getting very hot already (102) so if I don't find it, I will try again when the weather cools. Cheers!
  • susannaduffy Apr 21, 2009 @ 4:54 am | delete
    I had to come back to see if your lens on Arizona were as beautiful as I remembered. And it is! Blessed by an angel today
  • Late Coyote Mar 30, 2009 @ 10:29 pm | delete
    You make me proud. You are mother's pride. The earth's beauty is in the eye of your heart
  • Ramkitten Mar 24, 2009 @ 7:04 pm | delete
    Ditto what susannaduffy said! Wow, pretty! We're up here in Flagstaff, by the way (waving from on top of the "hill") but heading down to your neck of the desert in just a few days to warm up a bit and enjoy the wildflowers.
  • susannaduffy Mar 13, 2009 @ 11:07 pm | delete
    What a beautiful country! What beautiful images! What a beautiful lens!

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