Photograph by Steven Meckler
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This Is Harder Than It Looks

What enigmatic inspiration or demon magic is it that lives in this tree — this arboreal delinquent, bristling with 2-inch thorns, that refuses to...
Photograph by Bruce D. Taubert
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They Like to Bee Alone

Do bees dream? That’s something Tucson-based pollination ecologist Stephen Buchmann likes to ponder. After more than four decades studying bee...
Photograph by Jack Dykinga
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Living in the Sticks

     
Photograph by Bill Hatcher
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According to Custom

It was a cool, calm morning in June 1972. The sun had not yet risen behind the mesas that sit to the east of one of my family’s many homesteads on...
Photograph by Guy Schmickle
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Wildflowers Are in Style This Season

               
Photograph by Laurence Parent
Hiking

Sunrise Trail

In the McDowell Mountains in the middle of March, the sun rises at 6:37 a.m. If your chronotype is that of a lark, you have a shot at capturing that...
Photograph by Laurence Parent
Scenic Drives

Salt River Canyon

Maybe this one seems too obvious. Everyone knows about the drive through Salt River Canyon, you might be thinking. But you’d be surprised how many...
Photograph by Jeff Kida
Lodging

Casa Paloma Bed & Breakfast

Katie Sayre and her husband, Ray, take pride in the fact that their Casa Paloma Bed & Breakfast, just across the Santa Cruz River in Tumacacori, elicits a certain reaction from guests. “I like it...