Scottsdale Daily Photo

Last night was the annual ARTrageous fundraiser for the Scottsdale Center for the Arts.  The even featured a reception with a silent aucti...

Today's worldwide City Daily Photo Theme is "Worker."  I chose this street art mural of Jose Orozco behind the Bario Cafe in...

This is a scene similar to yesterday's photo, but with a different camera setting and using a fill flash to illuminate the cactus in t...

Often the views in the opposite direction of a sunset are as attractive as the sunset.  The sun never sets in the northern sky, of course,...

I never tire of sunsets over Camelback Mountain.  This is the view from our kitchen window, looking west towards the east side of Camelbac...

Happy Thanksgiving.  We have so much to be thankful for, so please join me in raising a toast to family, friends, good food, fine wine, ou...

If yesterday's photo of an eagle in a tree in our front yard was too obscured for your tastes, here is a photo of the eagle perched on...

It is hard to see amidst the leaves, but if you look closely you can see an eagle who likes to perch in an Argentine mesquite tree in our ...

This concludes the three-part series on the death of an agave.  This is a close up of the fibrous stalk that this agave sent skyward. In...

This is a closer view of the same agave stalk that I showed yesterday. Often agave stalks have tight geometric patterns.  This one was qui...

It is both sad and a source of wonder when one of the agave plants in our yard sends a stalk up to the sky, often ten times greater in hei...

If you look closely, there is an airplane about to descend into the sunset saturated cloud layer. The trouble with Stuart viewing the su...

When Stuart took his recent Jeep trail trip up Four Peaks, he naturally had an irresistible urge to photograph his Jeep and the beginning ...

This is the jeep trail that leads up to the top of Four Peaks. Most Arizonans love the beauty of the desert.  Visitors seem to have mixe...

Four Peaks are a prominent landmark to the east, visible from much of Scottsdale and Phoenix.  The peaks are located in the Mazatzal Mount...

The Scottsdale Polo Championships, held this past weekend, are as much a social event as they are a polo match. When the event was first h...

During halftime at the Scottsdale Polo Championships, fans are invited to walk the field to stop on divots to smooth out the field.  It is...

The Scottsdale Polo Championships this weekend have the theme "Horses and Horsepower."  The event includes a display of cars fro...

Polo players and their horses must act as one in  changing directions and chasing the ball.  One side of the polo field at the Scottsdale ...

This weekend is the Scottsdale Polo Championships.  We won't be able to go, but I am posting a photo from when we attended the event i...

When looking through Stuart's photos from the NFL Fan Experience at the Super Bowl to see what might be posted to this website, my hus...

At the NFL Fan Experience that accompanies the Super Bowl, there is an exhibition from the Pro Football Hall of Fame.  I will show a sampl...

Here is another photo of the NFL Fan Experience from the last time the Super Bowl was in Phoenix.  Next year the NFL Fan Experience will b...

As this t-shirt shows, about halfway between Yuma and Gila Bend is Dateland, Arizona.  It is about the only place on that lonely stretch o...

This is a portion of the sale area for large cacti at the Desert Botanical Garden's semi-annual plant sale last weekend. These large...

Last evening we enjoyed a wine maker's dinner with Darioush Khaledi at Central Bistro.  We have visited the Darioush Winery on Silvera...

The Desert Botanical Garden plant sale is an excellent opportunity to buy a saguaro cactus.  This is the area of the plant sale that featu...

This weekend is the Desert Botanical Garden's semi-annual plant sale.  Thousands of plants are displayed in the DBG parking lot. Yes...

The last time the Super Bowl was in Arizona, the exhibits included this giant replica of the Super Bowl Championship Trophy.  This giant r...

This is an iPhone photo of yesterday's double rainbow in central Phoenix, taken from my office window. The remnants of yet another P...