Photograph by Steven Meckler
Santa Cruz Chili and Spice Co.
Chiles have been a part of Jeanie Neubauer’s life for as long as she can remember: Her father, Gene England, started the Santa Cruz Chili and Spice Co. in 1943. Today, Neubauer runs the family…
Photograph by Nick Berezenko
Take the High Roads
WILDCAT CROSSING Bighorn sheep gather in a grassy meadow along Forest Road 24, part of the route to Wildcat Crossing. | Joel HazeltonWildlife-watching trips are great…
Photograph by John Burcham
The Grandmother of All Ponderosas
I call her the grandmother tree. She lives near the top of Mars Hill in Flagstaff, on a slope well away from established trails. Far bigger than any other ponderosa pine around, she is about 150 feet…
Photograph by Bill Hatcher
Great Big Trees
Standing just outside Saguaro National Park East, Nick Shipley and I take in the pale, jigsaw-puzzle trunks of sycamores towering all around us. Their graceful arms reach for the winter sky,…
Photograph by Joel Hazelton
A Walk in the Woods
Mature Frémont cottonwoods (Populus fremontii) line Southern Arizona’s San Pedro River beneath puffy clouds. Named for explorer John C. Frémont, these trees are a common…
Photograph by Tom Bean
The Insistence of Aspens
This morning, I walked through a grove of winter aspens. Bare branches offered no shimmering summer green, no quivering, iridescent autumn gold. But no season can remove the trees’ dark eyes. Framed…
Photograph by Tom Story
"The Phoenix"
“From the texts of the early writers to that of contemporaries, from the temples of the Mediterranean Sea to the fanciful designs of coats of arms, the phoenix bird, described in different ways,…
Left photo by Darwin Van Campen; right photo by Adam Schallau
Then and Now
Above: Darwin Van Campen’s photograph from Point Imperial on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim was made with a 4x5 camera and published in the May 1972 issue of Arizona Highways. Above, right: By contrast…