This weekend, downtown Tempe is closing off Mill Avenue and several surrounding streets for the year’s first Festival of the Arts. I’ve had a sneak peek at the attending artists, and there’s a lot to love in a few blocks of tree-shaded urban oasis. Plus music, festival food booths, and street art contests! Also, cool…
Read More Tempe Festival of the Arts Spring 2019Around lunchtime last week, I looked up at the sky and thought, “Hey, those look a LOT like wall clouds. And that sky has a color I haven’t seen since Portales*. Oh, look, that hubcap-shaped cloud is…” Rotating. Over the next 45 seconds, this elegant funnel dropped out of the clouds. It skimmed northeastward, the…
Read More Accidental StormchasingI’ve been so busy with art and a new manufacturing job that I have completely neglected the Blue Night blog. Sorry, folks, I’ll try to carve some time out for bloggy stuff. In the meantime, I really love my job. First, a PSA: If you know someone going through a traumatic and dangerous breakup/divorce/etc, make…
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