The Photographer’s I: Architecture in Nogales, Arizona

The trip was to Nogales, Sonora. For dental work. (It went fine.) I had some time available while Ann was having a lengthy procedure, and decided to explore the older downtown area of Nogales, Arizona—twin cities here, divided in the middle by the ominous, forbidding looking, steel wall. Camera in hand, off I go, not [...]

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US Highway 95—Part 4, Vegas and Beyond. On to Hoover Dam.

Leaving Goldfield’s snow behind, we eat cheese and crackers in shirt sleeves at the turnoff to Death Valley Junction. By mid-afternoon we’re sailing past North Vegas’ overflowing suburbs and into Las Vegas itself. From the beltway we don’t see The Strip, but we do see buildings on that over-the-top scale Vegas is famous for. Stan [...]

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Book Review: West of the Thirties, by Edward T. Hall

West of the Thirties, written 60 years after the events it records, chronicles the four summers a barely adult Edward T. Hall spent working on the Hopi and Navajo reservations of northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico. He was only 19 when he arrived to work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1933. Hall [...]

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Photo Essay: Cactus

Photographer’s Note:  Their range stretches from the Canadian plains to Argentina. But they are indigenous only to the New World. The great saguaro is the icon  of the southwest deserts, but it occurs in numbers only in Arizona. The real cactus workhorses of the southwest are the cholla and the far-ranging prickly pear. Most of [...]

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