A trainer and young client walk alongside a dark brown horse.
Healing on Horseback
A metal ramada, equipped with industrial-grade ceiling fans, stands tall and juts out into the desert landscape of Cave Creek, Arizona, covering a large patch of dirt. An unpaved driveway leads to a…
Photograph by Bill Ferris
Wildlife Photo Contest Winners
Lee Scherer, Marana American pronghorn   Isabel Guerra Clark, Phoenix Desert bighorn sheep   Sue Welter…
Photograph by Michael Wilson
Winter Lace
Through the night, there was no sound in the forest. And with the dawn, the forest folk looked out on a world that was white and wonderful, a world covered with a fluffy coat of winter lace. Every…
Painting by "Ettore "Ted" DeGrazia
Christmas Fantasies
Ted DeGrazia has been called both a genius and a madman. He wasn’t the only one. Edvard Munch, Paul Gauguin and Michelangelo were all thought to be teetering somewhere on the spectrum between genius…
Photograph by Tom Bean
Out In The Cold
A seasonal tributary of Lynx Creek, in the Prescott National Forest, flows through a snow-blanketed landscape as it mirrors tall ponderosa pines and the colors of sunset…
Photograph by Tom Bean
Do You Believe in Magic?
Peace. Joy. Light. Magic. Snow, if you’re lucky. No snow, if that’s your definition of “lucky.” My mother taught me Christmas was about love. But once — hearing sleigh bells, then rushing from my bed…
Photograph by John Burcham
little tree
little tree  little silent Christmas tree  you are so little  you are more like a flower  who found you in the green forest  and were you very sorry to come away?  see      i will comfort you…
Photograph by Derek von Briesen
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Snow isn’t really a prerequisite for winter. Or for Christmas. Or, perhaps, for life itself. But when it sparkles like diamonds under the full moon, or in the slanting rays of morning sun; when its…