summer Archives - Lakota Grace, Author

September 6, 2018 2 Comments

The quality of light in Arizona is intense, and never more so than at sunset during monsoon season. For two summer months, the afternoon clouds...

August 30, 2018 1 Comments

As you drive through Oak Creek Canyon, you’ll see a sign for Ensinoso Park. There, if you stop your car and walk down the hill you’ll...

July 15, 2018 2 Comments

This is a commercially planted group of golden barrel cactus, also known as mother-in-law cushions. I know this because no self-respecting barrel...

July 14, 2018 2 Comments

In the hot Arizona summer, any point of shade is welcome. Here, the barred shadows represent a wooden arbor overhead, providing more an illusion...

July 5, 2018 0 Comments

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have...

July 3, 2018 2 Comments

Life at its best is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed. ~ Carl Rogers The San Francisco Peaks near Flagstaff, Arizona were...

February 11, 2018 0 Comments

Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors My rating: 5 of 5 stars When I was 19, I spent a summer as a forest fire...

February 1, 2017 0 Comments

I’d been having a miserable writer’s block. Nothing seemed to help. I sang, I danced, I walked around the block, I called my...