As Green as Ireland
From 1993-2016, winter was the only season that Uno and I saw the Arivaca area, because that was the only time when we both could fit a long road trip into our work schedules. The blue skies and warm sun were such a wonderful contrast with the grey cold of Seattle, it didn’t matter one bit that the trees were mostly bare and the grasses brown. In the early years of our visits though, the trails along Arivaca creek and through the Cienega were lush and green even in March, and we quickly fell in love with this little slice of paradise. Arivaca cienega in February 2017 As the years passed by, the Cienega and creek gradually grew drier during the winter months, but our appreciation for this place continued to grow strong. When we first began living in our “winter getaway” home here in 2016, our new Arivaca friends began encouraging us to stick around for the summer monsoon season, when the heavy rains would turn all the hills and valleys “as green...