Filed under: Phoenix History | Tags: Arizona folk song, Arizona songs, by the time, Getting to Phoenix, Phoenix banjo, Phoenix traditions, time in Phoenix, western diddly
By the time I get to Phoenix…
…the sun will be setting.
Filed under: Attractions | Tags: 24th street, Arizona mountains, camelback road, phoenix mountain preserve
Phoenix Arizona 24th Street & Camelback Road from the Phoenix Mountain Preserve, originally uploaded by Al_HikesAZ.
This is a view from a trail east of Piestewa Peak of my favorite intersection at 24th Street and Camelback Road. In the forground you can see the Biltmore Hotel conference center and parking garage and the Wrigley Mansion. In the midground you can see the Biltmore Fashion Square, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Camelback Esplanade and in the distance you can see the Phoenix Childrens’ Hospital. In the background you can see smog. 
Phoenix gets these inversions in the winter that traps particulates in the Valley and makes the air ugly.
Filed under: Nightlife, Photos | Tags: Arizona sun, beautiful sunset, midwestern sunset, Phoenix sun receding, sunset and sunrise
Phoenix Sunset
Filed under: Photos | Tags: morning in Phoenix, mornings in Arizona, Phoenix sunset, sunset after sunrise
Stitched composite of an autumn sunset taken at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona. In the foreground is a large Saguaro cactus and other desert vegetation.
Filed under: Photos | Tags: Arizona food, demanding food, donuts, Phoenix foodstuffs
Phoenix Demands Donuts – Day of the Donut – flickr PROtest event – Video or slideshow?, originally uploaded by ACME-Nollmeyer.
Filed under: Attractions | Tags: 20th street, Arizona birds, Arizona dreaming, class sculpture, Phoenix bird
Phoenix Bird – classic sculpture at Town & Country Shopping Center at 20th St & Camelback Road.
Designed by Paul Coze. I think around 1963.
“In 1951 he opened his studio in Phoenix, Arizona, at 4040 East Elm Street.While in Phoenix he has painted the mural for the Mayer-Heard Building, the mural for the Sky Harbor Airport, the Stations of the Cross for St. Thomas the Apostle Parish, the mural in the new Phoenix City Council Chamber, worked in his studio doing the murals for the new Prescott City Building, and the mural in the new Arizona Title Building. “
Filed under: Attractions, Photos | Tags: highrises, midwestern high rises, Phoenix high rising, Phoenix rising, towering Phoenix
Thanks to the Arizona HiRISE team! The full-res version is breathtaking…
A smaller version and back story are at WIRED:
“Today the University of Arizona, who manages the HiRISE camera for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, released a stunning image of the Phoenix lander hanging from its parachute, diving past a huge crater.
The lower res image NASA released yesterday was the first time a Mars mission had ever imaged another Mars mission while it was in its final entry, descent and landing phase (EDL). It is truly a very cool piece of handiwork on the part of the HiRISE camera folks. They had to orient the whole spacecraft so that it could shoot back towards the lander at a very oblique angle as it was about to orbit around the back side of Mars away from the landing site.”
Filed under: Attractions, Photos | Tags: Arizona grandness, The famous Phoenix, wondrous Phoenix photos
A mythical bird that never dies, the Phoenix flies far ahead to the front, always scanning the landscape and distant space. It represents our capacity for vision, for collecting sensory information about our environment and the events unfolding within it. The Phoenix, with its great beauty, creates intense excitement and deathless inspiration.”
The Feng Shui Handbook, feng shui Master Lam Kam Chuen
Like the fiery Phoenix of lore, the city of the same name ends a day in blazing glory (this pic actually taken within the city limits of Phoenix).
Filed under: Photos | Tags: Arizona vies, great Phoenix views, looking down on Phoenix, overlooking Phoenix
This magnificent view was taken from the terrace of the restaurant at the top of the Tapatio Cliffs Resort near Phoenix, Arizona. The view was breathtaking! View large to get a better view of the silhouetted hills in the background.
