Photoblogging

Photographing the front of your house

Listings

Sometimes a head-on shot of the exterior front of a house isn’t the best way to showcase what the home has to offer. Sometimes you should take a picture from an angle you’d never normally use. That’s the same house and the two pictures were taken within about 60 seconds of each other. You’d hardly [...]

2 September 2010 Read the full article →

“Amare” for the home team

Op Ed

Professional sports ain’t what they used to be, what with free agency and all.. You want to get behind the home teams, and you want to love the home players, but those players seem to come & go every year.  So I root for the teams, and when I have to buy something player-specific (like [...]

30 August 2010 Read the full article →

Moving Stills 97 – Summer Shade

Photoblogging

The Fry’s grocery store at Tatum & Shea installed shade covers in their parking lot last week – a great solution to the Parking Lot Shade Tree question I posed last summer.  It still leaves me with 3 unanswered questions: 1. Is this a competitive advantage?  In other words, would you drive a little further [...]

24 August 2010 Read the full article →

All about the Phoenix monsoon

Glossary Posts

This is a reprint of a post from summer 2009. When I was a kid and we moved here in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the knee-jerk reaction answer to “When’s the monsoon?” was “August”. With the heat island effect, it seems like the monsoon arrives earlier and lasts longer each year. In 2008, [...]

4 August 2010 Read the full article →

the heat sneaks up on you

Op Ed

This morning was beautiful – absolutely beautiful.  I took advantage of the nice weather & grabbed a seat on the patio at Paradise Bakery this morning.  Did I mention it was 5:45 am?  That might have something to do with the almost cool temperature.. By 7:00 I noticed it was getting a little warm, but [...]

3 August 2010 Read the full article →

Got Lead Based Paint?

Photoblogging

We stumbled across this beauty the other day – it’s a bank-owned REO listing, built in the early 1970s, and it doesn’t look like the prior owners had updated anything since the first few years they were there! But here’s the catch:  most buyers (almost all buyers) in this price range are going to either [...]

27 July 2010 Read the full article →

Moving Stills 96 – Remodeling at Arizona Biltmore

Photoblogging

I drove through the Biltmore parking lot this week and had to do a double-take (and then a triple-take!)  You don’t usually see Piestawa Peak nestled between Sam’s Cafe and Steamers! You can read the rules for a Moving Stills post and learn how the series came to be by reading my initial post in [...]

15 July 2010 Read the full article →

Moving Stills 95 – Quitter’s Hill

Photoblogging

Wide lanes, smooth asphalt, sparse traffic, and a 105-foot vertical gain make this four-tenths of a mile stretch of Tierra Del Rio Blvd a great place to train.  Located about a mile north of the intersection of 107th Ave and Happy Valley Rd, I biked and ran this hill about 100 times this spring while [...]

2 July 2010 Read the full article →

Moving Stills 94 – Flagstaff Wild Fire

Photoblogging

Yesterday my family was driving across Northeastern Arizona towards Flagstaff.  We could see this plume of smoke from 75 miles east on I-40, and stopped at Little America for a chance to stretch our legs and take a couple pictures (and smell the charred forest…) You can read the rules for a Moving Stills post [...]

21 June 2010 Read the full article →

Moving Stills 93 – Reflection in SCF Tower

Photoblogging

A great reflection off the SCF Tower at 2nd Street & Earll Dr. You can read the rules for a Moving Stills post and learn how the series came to be by reading my initial post in the series – Moving Stills 1. You can see a map of all my Moving Stills photos here. [...]

18 May 2010 Read the full article →

Peoria’s new Beardsley Connector offramp

Op Ed

There’s a lot of construction in Phoenix.  I guess this is probably true in most cities – maybe it’s just a fact of life, that they’re always building things, and then breaking them down to make them bigger. Sometimes the construction is because the city is growing; other times it’s because they’re trying to make [...]

14 May 2010 Read the full article →