Nature Photography: Monsoons Arrive
Well, look what's back in town! Looks like big drops of water, falling from the sky! Alas, this was one of those five-minute wonderstorms. We've had more convincing ones, but no gullywashers. Yet. This...
View ArticlePhoto Essay: Pod Farming Adventures
A month ago, I blogged about the start of the mesquite bean harvest at my place. Around Tucson, you'll also hear those beans referred to as pods. This post is about my adventures as a pod farmer. The...
View ArticleWebsite Redesign: American Journal of Medicine Blog
This blog exists to drive traffic to the Tucson-based American Journal of Medicine. It's managed by a longtime friend and mentor, Pamela Powers Hannley. The AJM blog started out on Blogger, but Pamela...
View ArticlePhoto Essay: End of the Harvest
Okay, so I finally found a great way to wash and dry large quantities of mesquite pods: Put them in that used produce crate that's been sitting in my shed. Set them atop one of my gardens. That feral...
View ArticlePhoto Essay: Sudden Downpour
So far, August's monsoon storms have been quite impressive. A total of .55" to date. More than half of the rain came during last Friday's sudden downpour. Here are the results from my neighborhood,...
View ArticlePhoto Essay: Sunshine and Water
The brief story of sunshine and water in Tucson goes like this: Sunshine: Way too much! Water: Not enough! Ultra-bright midday sun is turning my cabeza temporal squash plants into a bunch of swooning...
View ArticleEvent Photography: Breakfast Meeting with U.S. Rep. Ron Barber
On Wednesday, September 4, the University of Arizona, Tech Launch Arizona, and Startup Tucson hosted a breakfast meeting with U.S. Rep. Ron Barber. The meeting covered a wide range of topics, including...
View ArticleThe Bike-tography Show: Combining bicycling with photography
A solo exhibition of images by Martha Retallick Borderlands Brewing Company 119 East Toole Avenue Tucson, Arizona 85701 October 12 through November 9, 2013 Tucson, AZ – September 19, 2013 – Meet Martha...
View ArticleEvent Photography: Home-Scape Tour 2013
So, here's my back porch, all ready to receive hordes of Watershed Management Group Home-Scape Tourists... For the first hour of the tour, things were slow. Then I got slammed with visitors. About 50...
View ArticleEvent Photography: Fall 2013 Bicycle Swap Meet
To think that, when I first attended the Swap Meet 25 years ago, it was a monthly bicycle club meeting held in a University of Arizona auditorium. I doubt that more than 100 club members attended. And...
View ArticlePhoto Essay: Mesquite Bean Math
Here's the finished project, the end result of many weeks of harvesting and drying the mesquite beans from my front-yard tree... Thank you, Desert Harvesters, for doing the milling, and to Patty Goble...
View ArticlePhoto Essay: Winter Gardening
Winters in Tucson are interesting, to say the least. For example, consider what we're dealing with right now: A week-long cold snap. Daytime temperatures have barely reached the fifties and the...
View ArticleNature Photography: Ripening Lettuce
Here's what's growing in my side yard. And it's almost salad time! In honor of this milestone, it's time to make some salad dressing. Here's my recipe for Salad Dressing Picante: One part vinegar to...
View ArticleNature Photography: Early Blooms
We had one of the warmest Januarys on record. So, Tucson's plant life responded by blooming early. Here are two eager beaver plants from my yard. First, the aloe... And the feathery senna. How could it...
View ArticleNature Photography: Rain in the Garden
Been in a long-term drought here in Southern Arizona. Thus, scenes like this are always welcome. Especially in the garden...
View ArticleNature Photography: Jumble Garden
I had the best of intentions last fall. Neat, orderly garden rows. But nothing sprouted. Time for Garden 2.0. Where seeds sprouted wherever I tossed them. Looks like this Jumble Garden thing is working...
View ArticleNature Photography: Drip Irrigation
After I did a little hand washing, I put the laundry outside. Where it dripped all over my porch. Which is right next to my thirsty container garden. Time to give three of those cilantro pots a little...
View ArticleNature Photography: Sloppy Mesquite Tree
At this time of the year, my mesquite tree is a bit of a slob. It's losing its leaves, which means that my yard is full of duff. Here's what I'm talking about... If the tree limited its duff sharing to...
View ArticleNature Photography: Kale Going to Seed
Looks like it's time to wrap things up on the winter gardening front. My kale is going to seed... This weekend's forecast calls for big drops of water falling from the sky. That's what people in wetter...
View ArticleNature Photography: It’s an experiment
Found three uprooted globe mallows during yesterday evening's walk around the neighborhood. I'm trying to re-root them in a pot... Will they make it? I don't know. Call this project an experiment.
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