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in/motion

I was just waiting out the layover time by practicing taking blurry pictures. (Some people are especially gifted and can get blurry photos without even trying!)

But the other thing I was doing was laughing about the name of the store on the other side of the walkway.

Sky Harbor International Airport
Phoenix, Arizona
photographed 6.6.2026

why, yes – we WERE there at Christmas

How To Tell It’s Christmas (Arizona edition): look on top of road signs.

Phoenix, Arizona
photographed 12.27.2023

light leak

This is what the hotel room looked like at 10:53 pm. In case you’d wondered.

RISE Uptown Hotel
Phoenix, Arizona
photographed 12.25.2022

not a rain culture

A man wearing a red shirt and a silver bolo tie and carrying a small leather journal noticed me as he stepped carefully through the sidewalk puddles and said, “We don’t have a rain culture here.” And it was just that lack of a rain culture that made a rainy day enjoyable.

Heard Museum
Phoenix, Arizona
photographed 12.28.2022

south central, with murals

A alley that’s got trash dumpsters, fire-escape stairs, and a mural is surely an alley that I will stop to look at. And, of course, photograph.

Phoenix, Arizona
photographed 12.27.2022