Drawing by Bob Waldmire
Drawing Attention to Bob
It was early 1996, and Bob Waldmire was living in Hackberry, along Northwestern Arizona’s stretch of Historic Route 66, and running his revived Hackberry General Store. To those who’d followed his…
Photograph by Josef Muench (NAU Cline Library)
Land Of The Stone Comics
Tucked away in the southeastern corner of Arizona is the Chiricahua National Monument. It covers 10,693 acres in the extreme northern end of the Chiricahua Mountains. Aside from the beauties to be…
Photograph by Laurence Parent
Set In Stone
A rock arch frames Punch and Judy, two hoodoos that resemble a bickering couple, near the Heart of Rocks Loop. The loop itself is 7.3 miles in length, but some…
Courtesy Spragge Family Collection
On This Day In Rock History
On Labor Day in 1934, some 7,000 visitors crowded onto Massai Point for the dedication of Chiricahua National Monument. While the Bisbee High School Bugle Corps played and dignitaries expounded,…
Photograph by Jonathan Buford
Jonathan Buford: This Is My Story
I’ve spent much of my time in Arizona exploring and photographing the state’s 90 wilderness areas, and one of the spots closest to home is the Four Peaks Wilderness, northeast of Phoenix. As…
Photograph by Jeff Maltzman
Texas Canyon Nature Preserve
Zipping past Texas Canyon, an hour southeast of Tucson, it’s impossible not to notice the boulders — giant, eye-catching piles of granite, like something out of The Flintstones. But other than…
Painter Ed Mell, in a blue shirt and cream colored-hat, stands with his arms crossed in front of one of his landscape paintings.
In Memoriam: Ed Mell
Ed Mell was a student of the Arizona landscape, of the state's skies, mountains and figures. The acclaimed artist was born in Phoenix in 1942, graduated from LA's Art Center College of Design in 1967…
Photograph by Guy Schmickle
Take A Picture, It’ll Last Longer
Desert sand verbenas (purple) and evening primroses (white and yellow) blanket a sand dune at Havasu National Wildlife Refuge in Western Arizona. Operated by the U.S.…