On Nov 29, 2005, at 7:22 AM, Julia Thompson wrote:
In the Phoenix area. So not so close. But I bet it's prettier where your stepfather is. (For some definition of "pretty", anyway.)
Depends. The Northern Mohave Desert tends to shade a lot toward olive drab, with pale rust basalt knurls all over the place. A couple years back it was unusually wet, so there were quite a lot of wildflowers to green things up, and the lichen had a banner year, deep forest and an almost canary yellow all over the otherwise fairly conventional stones.
What this part of the state has to offer in abundance is almost faultless nighttime skies. My lifelong love affair with astronomy began here.
As for Phoenix … well, I've always preferred Tucson. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books <http://books.nightwares.com/> Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" <http://books.nightwares.com/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf> <http://books.nightwares.com/ockrassa/Storms_on_a_Flat_Placid_Sea.pdf> _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
