Cactus Juice

Suffices to say there was some fog this morning.  Reminded me of a typical Portland day.  I snapped pictures on my drive in but I knew they would be too blurry to post.  Town Lake was not visible -- at all.  I could not see Sun Devil Stadium or downtown Tempe.  Complete white out.  This photo of ...

Check it out, Limey has been thriving in his new pot. Within a month he had five flowers and the bees worked their magic. Unfortunately a recent windstorm broke one of his branches -- the one that had three of the flowers on it. Talk about reverse luck!  Anyhoo, the other two flowers survived and I noticed last weekend that we ...

The leopard and deer were hanging out in the Life Sciences building this morning, watching me as I walked by on my way to my office. We were separated by glass, so feeling safe, I quietly snuck up to the window. They were kind enough to hold still while I snapped their photo. I am not sure if they should be allowed to hang out ...

Snapped this photo a dust storm rolling into the Valley during my commute home on May 8th. It was amazing how fast the dust cloud rolled in. From the time it too me to walk from my office to my car (about 13 minutes) the cloud had come from Mesa and was entering Tempe and rolling over ASU. Then as I was heading west into Phoenix on ...

It was deja vu this morning. I get into my truck, fasten my seatbelt, look up and this little guy is staring me in the face. Wow third sick bee I have seen in less than a week. I am assuming they were all not feeling well. None of them appeared to be able to fly. There was the little bee that could whom survived my harrowing commute last week. ...

So I go out to my truck this morning and there is a bee resting on the door. He looked tired. I carefully unlocked my door, got in and closed it behind me. None of this activity prompted him to fly off. I am not a bee expert but I concluded he was probably dying. (Is it true they die after they use their stinger? ) I drive off to work, down ...

Isn't it cute? Holycow I want one! The smart fortwo car is coming to the USA in 2008. This model is known as the smart fortwo ''passion''. According to the manufacturer, smart USA, the car will list at about $14,000. That is almost half the price of a Toyota Prius and better gas mileage too! Smart is a member of the Mercedes ...

Isn't it cute? Holycow I want one! The smart fortwo car is coming to the USA in 2008. This model is known as the smart fortwo ''passion''. According the manufacturer's web site the car will list at about $14,000. That is half the price of a Toyota Prius and better gas mileage too! Read my blog post for more details.

An open letter to Arizona Senator Jake Flake (R, Snowflake) Dear Senator Flake (jflake@azleg.gov), This week Governor Janet Napolitano, in conjunction with two of your Republican colleagues, offered a plan to help bring our Valley's air pollution under control. Fortunately, their proposal came under immediate opposition from you! ...

Scraped this off Yahoo's home page today. Evidently ''Yahoos'' enjoy dirty air and property crime. Me, I'm partial to Phoenix's ubiquity of handguns and endlesss supply of crystal meth. Phoenix #5, are you kidding me? Come on, we have the best smog. Have you tried Phoenix haze lately? A slightly aged C02 -- dare I say mature smog, with ...