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Walking Prescott

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Short picture essays of unusual & interesting sights I catch as I walk & travel around a small Arizona mountain town: everything from art fairs and farmers' markets to stone buildings, toad's eyes and how to keep a city's streets lively.

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  • Ride \'em, cowgirl!

    Posted on Sunday December 20th, 2009 at 23:33

    A small sculpt on display in the main entrance to the Sharlot Hall Museum. One has to wonder about that cactus problem that the horse is suffering.Note: posting will be sporadic for the next few days. The Sson and his family -- all four of them -- ar...

  • The big Christmas bazaar

    Posted on Saturday December 19th, 2009 at 22:36 in christmas, bazaars

    I don't know how many different non-profits were there today with their wares, but the Sparkes Activity Center was full of tables that were full of goodies, seasonal or suitable for gifting. To give an idea of the range of groups present: the snowmen...

  • Small lobby, neat pieces

    Posted on Friday December 18th, 2009 at 23:00 in furniture, hotel st. michael

    The St. Michael Hotel lobby is not a place for gathering nor, really, for just sitting to watch the passing parade, unlike, say, the Hassayampa Inn. For that, you have to move next door into the hotel's bistro. However, the few pieces of period furni...

  • Boop-oop-a-doo???

    Posted on Friday December 18th, 2009 at 00:26 in Nostalgia

    'S funny -- though I remember Betty Boop from my childhood, I never considered her a Big Deal. In fact, I never thought too much about her cartoons. And so here I am, at 80+, seeing all these Betty Boop items around town. Geezers remembering their ch...

  • A pair of big boring bits

    Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 23:31 in earth moving equipment

    Last night's post reminded me that I did have, somewhere in my big iPhoto folder, good pictures, in focus pictures of those great big bits used to make great big holes in the ground. The pix date from a couple of years ago, about the time all that wo...

  • Caged borer

    Posted on Tuesday December 15th, 2009 at 22:52

    By this time, everybody should know the drill: whatever is first in line in front of the lens is where the camera will focus. Which results in pictures of twigs instead of birds in trees. Smushed bugs on the windshield instead of purple mountain maje...

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