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Patrick Pynes and his partner, Sharon Lee Harris, live in a mountain oasis surrounded by natural beauty. Their 2.5-acre property northeast of Flagstaff offers a spectacular view of the San Francisco…
Have you ever looked up one day and realized the season has changed, like the tick of a minute hand on the clock? It was the day when rain took on a slight scent of snow, when midday light didn’t…
Hikes
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Arizona Trail (San Francisco Peaks Passage)
DIFFICULTY: Easy
ELEVATION: 8,928 to 9,000 feet
LENGTH: 15 miles round-trip (to Forest Road 418)
DIRECTIONS: From Flagstaff, go north on U.S.…
The touch of Midas is felt throughout the highlands at this time of the year and the Season’s touch has turned much of the green to gold. Is there anything in all of Nature so radiant as an aspen…
If you were to choose a bug’s life, being a butterfly would definitely be the way to go. For one thing, there’s variety. You start off as a caterpillar — cute and even fuzzy, not creepy and slimy…
What a glorious racket it must have been. What an incredible clamor filled a Chiricahua Mountains forest one August day in 1904, when a flock of as many as 1,000 thick-billed parrots (Rhynchopsitta…
To tell the story of artist and photographer Kate Thomson Cory, you start in the middle, not at the beginning.
In 1905, Cory was 44, less than halfway through what would turn out to be a long, long…
GRAND PRIZE WINNER
Michael Wilson
Soft autumn light lends a dreamlike quality to a streamside scene in Oak Creek Canyon, near Sedona. “Robert Stieve, our editor,…