Outdoors

All of the below photographs are either of our Tawa Street property, or are pictures of sights which are visible from the property.  Note the beautiful deep blue desert sky in many of the pictures!  By the way, does the style of this home look familiar to you?  The architect's design was strongly influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright!

Note that this page was originally published in 5/2004.  There were so many changes to the property during the following 16 months, that in 9/2005 we made major revisions to this web page to show the changes.

We hope you enjoy the pictures!

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The quail is significant ~ the birds are all around the neighborhood!	A functional waterway to the east of the guest house.	The guest house as seen from NW of the property.  Click here if you are interested in staying in our guest house during your Tucson vacation.	The left front of the house ~ note the large saguaro cactus.
The same saguaro from closer up ~ showing buds.	Close up of the buds.	Saguaro flowers.	The right side of the house.  Note that the main house has an evaporative cooler, as does the garage.
Mexican metal art on the right front of the house.	We also have a carport for guests.  Note that at the left side of the carport there are two sheds, and a nifty adobe alcove for the 90-gallon trash can.	Both houses.  Note that it is not possible to photograph the entire width of both houses from directly in front without a special lens!	Neighbor to the west ~ a very nicely maintained house and lot!
Neighbor to the north ~ another nice house and lot!	We are diagonally across the street from the University of Arizona Indian Ruins.	The Catalina Mountains behind the Indian Ruins.	Bonnie in our cactus garden.
Prickly pear cactus in bloom.	Bonnie and a large agave.	The agave with a 30' bloom.  Note that the bloom kills the mother plant!  L	Flowering lantana in the fall of 2004.  The winter of 04-05 killed all the orange and yellow lantana . . .
. . . but the purple lantana was not affected.  Early in 2005, Bill planted ALL purple plants.		This cactus is north of the guest house.  There are 13 large blooms on one small plant ~ very rare!	To the west of the house are three large flowers on a tiny cactus!
Double doors leading to the back yard.  The screens are to prevent damage from the aggressive Tucson woodpeckers.	The backside of the same door.	Fred & Fran Frog.  J	The guest house has central A/C, central gas heat, and a central evaporative cooler.
Pools in Tucson must be separately fenced in order to protect children.		Pool seating.	Mexican metal art.
		We installed this small adobe wall in 2005 . . .	. . . to hide the ugly pool equipment!  J
Another nice flowering cactus ~ this one is in a large pot next to the pool.	Our spa ~ great for a warm soak on cool evenings.	Bill installed 20 of these solar powered landscape lights around the property.  Most of them light our walkways.	Re-landscaped back yard.
Patio furniture added late 2004.	Patio to the left side.  Note that the home theater shutters are down.	Patio to the right side ~ the shutters are up for this picture.	There are 16 flood lights around the houses, controlled by a single timed switch in Bill's office.
Another shed, this one is behind the garage.	BIG dog run!	We have a large double gate to our back yard, perfect for storing our boats and RV's . . . NOT!  J	The alley running beside our property.