Scottsdale Daily Photo

This photo by Stuart gives a flavor of the NFL Fan Experience in the stadium parking lot during the days leading up to the Super Bowl when...

This is a photo from the car approaching the stadium where the Super Bowl was played in 2008, and where it will be played again in early 2...

Football started about a month ago.  I can tell because my husband every once in a while will tell me something about a game that he think...

This is an iPhone photo of an uprooted saguaro being removed from a yard by crane.  This saguaro is at least 80 years old because it has s...

This is a cell phone photo of yesterday's sunset, showing "Praying Monk" on the north side of Camelback Mountain.  The neck ...

Camelback Mountain is the most prominent landmark in Phoenix/Scottsdale.  This is  view from the McDowell Mountains across North Scottsdal...

This is an odd shot in the aftermath of last Saturday's severe wind and rain storm.  The storm did a lot of damage, tearing off tree l...

Today's theme for Daily Photo bloggers is "Movement."  For an Arizona interpretation of this theme, I am using another of St...

This is the crew from the Scottsdale Fire Department that responded to a problem at our house last evening.  I appreciate their help immen...

The photos that I have shown during the past couple of weeks were made possible by my step son, Stuart, being able to reach White Pocket i...

Here are two more photos of the haboob that moved across the Valley of the Sun on Friday. The first photo shows the haboob as it arrived...

Yesterday we had a haboob move through the Phoenix area in late afternoon for about 10 minutes.  This is a photo that shows the dust storm...

The cliffs and exposed rock faces in White Pocket look like a supernatural force took a paint brush to the rocks. While this is a painte...

Former Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla and former Mexican President Vicente Fox visited Arizona on Tuesday to promote trade  and in...

This mountainside at White Pocket has a strange geometrical pattern.  The same pattern seems to have repeated itself on both large and sma...

I have become more tolerant of people in my landscape photography.  (I love to take people pictures in other settings.)  In some landscape...

This is another photo that illustrates the magical shapes and colors of White Pocket.  The shapes of the rocks This week we have photos...

Stuart said that when the visited White Pocket during Labor day weekend, they spent 3 or 4 hours there exploring it, and they were the onl...

Last night was a special night in the Valley of the Sun.  The Phoenix Symphony opened its season and began a new era, as it was the first ...

This close view of one of the rock formations in the White Pocket area of the Vermillion Cliffs.  It has a crystaline-type of sparkle to i...

White Pocket has geologic formations and colors that seem to be crafted and painted by creative artists, rather than natural elements. T...

This is a closer view of the scene that I showed yesterday.  The swirling shapes, lines and colors of the rock are mesmerizing.  Stuart sp...

White Pocket is a remote area of the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument in far north central Arizona, just below the Utah state line.  It...

Continuing with the series of photos that Stuart took on his weekend in northern Arizona, he drove off road to White Pocket.  This photo g...

When Stuart took his recent weekend trip to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, he came across a herd of wild horses.  This horse looks lik...

Here is one more photo that shows how Scottsdale handles the occasional downpours that come in the desert in the July-September "mons...

This is a very sad photo.  A magnificent, fallen saguaro.  It has about 7 or 8 arms.  It takes about 80 years for a saguaro to start to gr...

On Monday I showed an odd shot of a portion of this view of the splattered mud on Stuart's Jeep.  When my husband asked his son why he...

This is what the weather looked like on Monday afternoon.  It is hard to imagine that this (iPhone) photo from my office was taken just a ...

Yesterday morning in the span of about 6 hours the official rainfall at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport was 3.29 inches (8.36 cm), which broke ...