There’s something very zen about cactus gardens,  and you can find them all over Phoenix. The above gardens are in front of the Paradise Valley post office near my hotel, and they are as prevalent in this town as Native American art:  All around Paradise Valley there are lovely homes surrounded by endless permutations of cactus arrangements: …
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Is That A Python On That Horse?
 Phoenix is a quaint mix of a once small outpost in America’s southwest and a modern city trying to keep up with the Joneses. It is peppered by golf resorts and tony shops catering to the financially secure, and yet it has a very down home feeling to it. I think it might have to do with the year …
Organic Architecture
 If I had a magic wand I would change only one thing about my life, and that’s to have become an architect.  Well, maybe a couple of things, like buying Microsoft stocks in 1986 and collecting CHANEL ten, twenty years earlier…but I digress. Today I’m taking you to Taliesin West, a Scottsdale property on 550 acres in the Sonoran desert …