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This is a photo of my wife Christa and our two daughters, Hanna and Lilli, coming in for a landing on Gilligans's Island. It is always fun here. |
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We live on seven acres in Paradise Valley, Arizona, composed of several lots. For reasons still unclear, the town required us to do a "lot tie" and name the combined properties, as if we were developers. You can guess the name we chose, above. I wish I could say I am "the professor". Christa says I am closer to Mr. Howell. This is Christa in our courtyard about the spring of 1980. In front of her on the floor is one baby kitten and two baby chicks and, to her right, our dog. We found the kittens abandoned in our barn and we raised the chicks. Our first child, Paul, was born the next year. |
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Christa in the same courtyard with our daughter Lilli during the winter of '83-'84. The hallway in the background is now finished and painted. |
Our first daughter, Miss Lilli, in the same courtyard, about
1989. Lilli always had a hat and an attitude, but a good one. |
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Our son Paul in our citrus orchard about 1992. Paul was a great
kid and very positive. |
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Our daughter Hanna in the same orchard as our son in the photo above, probably 1992. This year (2006) and last year we harvested citrus from this orchard from December through June. |
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Spring 2003: The second year for our peach tree at our home
in Paradise Valley, part of Scottsdale, a suburb
of Phoenix, Arizona. |
Kelly Scallion, on the left. Kelly worked for me for a couple
years and then just quit one day in a hurry. He was fed up with
living alone and went back to his family in Utah. This is the same
peach tree in the photo above. The workshop is in the backbround. |
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Our daughter Hanna with peaches from that same tree,
2003. |
If you look carefully at the center of the photo, you will see a
rabbit drinking out of an elevated pond. There are four small
birds, probably doves, in the right background. |
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This is our courtyard where Christa's dad raises his cacti. He
has had as many as 50 simultaneous blooms from these little cacti. |
These are the cacti blooms up close. We also have a lot of other
cacti in the seven acres, blooming red, yellow,
raspberry and sometimes orange. Also many mesquite,
ironwood, blue palo verde, creosote, brittlebush, globe
mallow and even some spanish broom, paper flowers,
thornberry, wolfberry, texas sage, cascia and lots of desert
marigolds. |
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This is another flower in the courtyard. I don't even know what it is. Flowers in the courtyard have bubbler water while those in the desert have drip. Overall, we have 53 automatic valves controlled by six clocks! I put a lot of it in myself and I gained a lot of respect for Mexicans. I have had a lot of them working for me and, if you supervise them, they will do a good job. I have not met a lot of Anglos who will do this work. |
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I built the little green gate one weekend from salvaged cedar fence panels and painted it with throwaway sample paint. The low block wall curves to match the perimeter of the asphalt cul de sac, where the photographer is standing. This photo shows vegetation typical throughout our place -- creosotes, brittle bush, ocotillos, palms, mesquite, palo verdes, globe mallows etc. In the left background is our workshop. |
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