Desert Vistas in Words and Photos – Reblog from Karen R. Sanderson

Buckeye, Arizona.

March 2022 is going to be the last full month of snowbirding in Arizona for us. It’s time for Lynn and me to sell our winter home and move on to new adventures. If all goes as planned, the house in Buckeye will have new owners just before the end of March, and Lynn and I will be on our way back to Fargo. We don’t yet know what next winter will be like, but we expect to be in warmer climates for the winter… we just aren’t sure where yet.

So, what does all of this have to do with the title of this Travel Tuesday post? Completely coincidentally, another North Dakota blogger reached out to me in February and asked if I would share some of my desert photos to accompany a poem she wrote about those beautiful desert vistas. After reading her poem, I was struck by how it resonated with my experiences here in Arizona. Her poem says what I couldn’t put into words about the beauty and history of the deserts of the American West.

By way of introduction, I met Karen in a Facebook North Dakota bloggers group a few years ago. Karen is a writer by trade and lives in Minot, North Dakota. She has published many short stories and her first collection of poetry,  “No Boundaries, A Collection of Poetry”, is available in paperback on Amazon. You can follow her blog here.

Without further ado, click on the image below to link to Karen’s site.

John Steiner

12 comments

      • I don’t mind at all. It’s not so much Arizona as it is the Phoenix metro. When we bought 10 years ago, Buckeye’s population was around 50,000. It is now estimated to be in the 90,000 range, and projected to be over 300,000 in the not-to-distant future.

        We’ve noticed the increase in traffic and the Town of Buckeye changed their charter to become the City of Buckeye. It’s getting too crowded for us North Dakotans. 🙂

        We are going to spend a winter traveling the southern U.S. looking for places to winter where we can get back to that smaller town feel and still stay away from those notorious North Dakota winters.

  1. Beautiful photo and poem. I’m incredibly sad that you are selling and moving on, even though I knew you were going to do so. I am meeting two other AZ bloggers if you want to join us on Tuesday, March 8.

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