Fresh new day and Fresh new year!

Here's a fresh start to 2019 - a beautfiul and vivid Tucson sunrise. Gorgeous! What are your resolutions for the year ahead? Travel? Retire? Spend time on your hobbies? Go to the gym? All of the above? :)

Photo courtesy of George Goldman. 

Why we love living in Tucson!

Captured here is a beautiful sunrise touching the Catalinas. I hope this helps you start your day in a beautiful way!

Photo courtesy of George Goldman. 

AWESOME way to start the week!

We never get tired of Tucson's mountainous beauty. This is a sunrise capturing a magnificent view ~ WOW!

Photo courtesy of George Goldman. 

Watercolor Sky - Wow!

Tucson is famous for its fabulous sunsets and should be equally noted for its gorgeous sunrises as well! Here are two morning images that paint the sky with delicate watercolor strokes of peach and gold and purple. Stunning!
Photos courtesy of Kathi Gardner. 

Throwback Thursday - 7 years ago today in Tucson

09 NOVEMBER 2010

Tucson's Fantastic Day of the Dead Parade

THEN:

Each year Tucson hosts a fun, creative, and amazing event - the All Souls Procession. People gather to honor departed loved ones and to revel in extraordinary costumes. The procession extends for miles and culminates in a spectacular finale with fire & flames. 

Photos courtesy of Chance Agrella.

http://www.allsoulsprocession.org

NOW: 

The Festival is celebrating its 28th year! WOW! Stay tuned for tomorrow's posting of two participants from the 2017 celebration. 

Morning's at Seven ~

Tucson is world famous for its spectacular sunsets but let me assure you that our sunrises are equally fabulous! Here is a sky greeting of the Tucson sky at 7 am. Wow!
Photo courtesy of Kathi Gardner. 

Hello New Day in Tucson!

 

Tucson is world-famous for its sunsets but we also offer spectacular sunrises, too! Check out this pink and yellow morning glow! Beautiful!
Photo courtesy of Jeffry Gardner.

Famous for good reason!

Tucson is famed for its sunsets and sunrises and here is just one beautiful example of why! This is a gorgeous sunrise over the Rincons. Good morning to you!
Photo courtesy of George Goldman.

Beautiful Thoughts Worth Recycling ~

When I was thinking tonight of what to post next I remembered that I intended to post this poem on January 1st of this year and I totally forgot. Here it is again - 6 years later and even more powerful than the last time I read it. Please again enjoy the TDP post from January 1, 2010. 

The start of a new year inspires and motivates many of us to do better, be better, live better. This photo of Tucson's first dawn in 2010 - a soft pink & purple masterpiece - brought a poem to mind that I hope you enjoy. The concept is extraordinary. The poet is Lisel Mueller.

Monet Refuses the Operation

Doctor, you say there are no haloes
around the streetlights in Paris
and what I see is an aberration
caused by old age, an affliction.

I tell you it has taken me all my life
to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels,
to soften and blur and finally banish
the edges you regret I don't see,
to learn that the line I called the horizon
does not exist and sky and water,
so long apart, are the same state of being.

Fifty-four years before I could see
Rouen cathedral is built
of parallel shafts of sun,
and now you want to restore
my youthful errors: fixed
notions of top and bottom,
the illusion of three-dimensional space,
wisteria separate from the bridge it covers.

What can I say to convince you
the Houses of Parliament dissolves
night after night to become
the fluid dream of the Thames?

I will not return to a universe
of objects that don't know each other,
as if islands were not the lost children
of one great continent. The world
is flux, and light becomes what it touches,
becomes water, lilies on water,
above and below water,
becomes lilac and mauve and yellow
and white and cerulean lamps,
small fists passing sunlight
so quickly to one another
that it would take long, streaming hair
inside my brush to catch it.

To paint the speed of light!
Our weighted shapes, these verticals,
burn to mix with air and change our bones,
skin, clothes to gases.

Doctor, if only you could see
how heaven pulls earth into its arms
and how infinitely the heart expands
to claim this world, blue vapor without end.

Tucson Throwback Thursday - 2010

Sometimes on these random Throwback Thursday posts I am showing things/places that have disappeared since they first appeared on this site. Happily, this one reminds us that you can always count on Tucson's weather to be a source of pleasure!

Here's the post caption from 2010: Here is a cool duo for you to enjoy! On my morning walk I saw the full moon to the west and the sunrise to the east.

Just another blue sky in Tucson ~

Not what you typically think of when you read "blue sky" is it? Everyone knows that Tucson has astonishing and beautiful sunsets AND sunrises. I love this blue sky and the lilac-colored clouds - so serene and peaceful! A beautiful way to start the day...
Photo courtesy Carolyn Tretiakoff

Tucson is truly a winter wonderland ~

Because we get a huge snowfall so rarely, many Tucsonans rush to capture the landscape transformation in photographs. I am so happy to share this beautiful portfolio of images that have been submitted by local residents. Sunrise, sunset, snow on mesquite trees, and vivid purple violets blooming in spite of it all...  Enjoy! Huge thanks to Karen Lustig and Rhonda Spencer for sharing their images of Tucson-in-the-Snow.

Tucson's golden dawn ~

Tucson is famous for its gorgeous sunsets ~ and rightly so! But let me share with you an equally beautiful sunrise photo.

Rose, gold & copper sky ~ a Tucson morning

The cold snap hasn't affected our fabulous sky colors! Check out this beautiful sunrise. I hope the temperature today matches these warm colors. Super Bowl Sunday - Steelers? Packers? Anyone want to predict?

Changes colors in the blink of an eye ~

In the course of just a few moments a Tucson sunrise can shift from pink to yellow to blue. I thought this was particularly pretty - like the inside of a seashell or a delicate watercolor painting.

Beautiful Tucson Sunrise ~ or is it a Sunset?

We have been having some extraordinary weather! Here is a sunrise (yes, sunrise) that I hope you enjoy. In the last week the morning skies have been as vivid as our famous Tucson sunsets. But the brilliant colors are very very brief.

This will challenge your thinking...

The start of a new year inspires and motivates many of us to do better, be better, live better. This photo of Tucson's first dawn in 2010 - a soft pink & purple masterpiece - brought a poem to mind that I hope you enjoy. The concept is extraordinary. The poet is Lisel Mueller.

Monet Refuses the Operation

Doctor, you say there are no haloes
around the streetlights in Paris
and what I see is an aberration
caused by old age, an affliction.

I tell you it has taken me all my life
to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels,
to soften and blur and finally banish
the edges you regret I don't see,
to learn that the line I called the horizon
does not exist and sky and water,
so long apart, are the same state of being.

Fifty-four years before I could see
Rouen cathedral is built
of parallel shafts of sun,
and now you want to restore
my youthful errors: fixed
notions of top and bottom,
the illusion of three-dimensional space,
wisteria separate from the bridge it covers.

What can I say to convince you
the Houses of Parliament dissolves
night after night to become
the fluid dream of the Thames?

I will not return to a universe
of objects that don't know each other,
as if islands were not the lost children
of one great continent. The world
is flux, and light becomes what it touches,
becomes water, lilies on water,
above and below water,
becomes lilac and mauve and yellow
and white and cerulean lamps,
small fists passing sunlight
so quickly to one another
that it would take long, streaming hair
inside my brush to catch it.

To paint the speed of light!
Our weighted shapes, these verticals,
burn to mix with air and change our bones,
skin, clothes to gases.

Doctor, if only you could see
how heaven pulls earth into its arms
and how infinitely the heart expands
to claim this world, blue vapor without end.

Tucson's Big Sky ~

We are having unusual weather - rain, cold temperatures, and...HAIL! A storm came in right before dawn and delivered a huge amount of rain along with that distinctive clicking clattering sound of ice pellets pummeling the roof. It was mostly gone by first light and this photo shows the storm quickly moving out of the area.

Purple Sage ~ Dawn Light

The beautiful purple sage/Texas ranger blooms with purple flowers after a good rain. We're still getting some storms and so we can enjoy this bush's display right now.

http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Scrophulariaceae/Leucophyllum_frutescens.html

Dawn of Another Beautiful Day in Tucson

Still some bits of clouds that may signal rain but for now there is just a gentle breeze and a sweet coolness in the air.