Late last year, I worked with the University of Arizona Herbarium on a website makeover. The new site is up and running, so log on and learn about the Herbarium’s research collection of over 400,000 dried plant specimens.
Much of the UA Herbarium collection comes from the Sonoran Desert region and adjacent areas of the arid […]

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This one started out as a photograph I took while watching the 1996 El Tour de Tucson bike race.

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This past Saturday, chalk artists and onlookers turned the Main Library’s Jacome Plaza into an open air gallery. The occasion was the 3rd Annual Tucson Madonnari Chalk Art Festival. Skilled artists and their apprentices painted large, contemporary and traditional style murals in chalk…

While the artists painted, Orquestra la Unica played salsa…

and the University of Arizona’s […]

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This past weekend provided a visual feast for those who see the bicycle as art. From Tucson’s Bicycle Swap Meet and Alley Cat Bike Scavenger hunt, we have…

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Tucson’s Bike Fest 2008 ended this past Sunday. The final event was a scavenger hunt for a good cause. And it started and ended at one of our coolest two-wheeled places, BICAS…

The 5th annual Alley Cat Bike Scavenger Hunt was a fundraiser for El Grupo Youth Cycling, and it attracted 134 riders. The cycling sleuths […]

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Yesterday was a total bicycle day in Downtown Tucson. The day started with the El Bike Swap de Tucson on Fourth Avenue. It’s one of the largest bicycle swap meets in the country…

The swap’s a good place for some great deals on bicycles, bike parts, and tools…

And it wouldn’t be a Tucson event without some […]

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ChromDB.org is home to an internationally renowned database for DNA researchers. Based at the University of Arizona’s BIO5 Institute, ChromDB includes information on more than 11,000 proteins from plants, animals, fungi, and other organisms.
The website’s research team wanted a new look and logo for the site. Since this is a database-driven site, its pages are […]

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Spring’s just about to give way to the summer heat. So, time to catch the chuparosa blooms before they fade away…

It’s been an especially good spring for new buds on the cactus. My prickly pear have been quite industrious…

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The Desert Botanical Gardens’ Butterfly Pavilion is an enclosed structure designed to keep the fluttering insects in. The interplay of the the pavilion’s roof reflection and the pond caught my eye.

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One of the many fluttering insects at the Desert Botanical Gardens’ Butterfly Pavilion. Catch this exhibit before it flies away in May.

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