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How hot IS it in Arizona?

10/21/2020

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Sometimes in the fall I post a photo of the ocotillo (a very spidery cactus) in front of my house because its tiny green leaves really do turn colors and fall off, making a pile that Barbie and Ken could rake up and jump in. Although the Phoenix area did not break its record for all-time high temperature (122) we have broken records in 2020 for number of days above 110 or 115 and for drought. My area has had less than 3" of rain all year. So instead, I will share photos of a road to the mountain city of Payson showing the total destruction caused by one of our many wildfires (even the guardrails burned up) and the barrel cactus in front of my house that died. I will spare you the dead palm trees and drought-hardy, desert-heat-tolerant plants that are everywhere you look. You know it's a "2020 kind of summer" when even the cactus dies.
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Phyllis Crow
10/28/2020 10:00:31 pm

Hello from a fellow Arizonan. I have spent many pleasurable hours looking at your pictures. I am descended from Alden and Brewster. I saw something in the FB group Mayflower Descendants today that I thought would interest you. Adrian Brisee posted a picture of John Eaton Alden, fifth great grandson. He says he also has a photo of George, his father. Not being sure that you would see this, I wanted to let you know. He says he has 100 photos, not all identified. BTW after seeing your Arizona photos last week, we drove from Casa Grande to Pine last Sunday for lunch. It is truly devastating to see so many saguaros burned. I wonder how many years it will be before those mountains look like they used to. I’m guessing more than a hundred, if ever! Thanks for all your work in finding your Mayflower photos. They are a real treasure. Phyllis

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    Dr. Maura Mackowski is an Arizona research historian who enjoys the challenge of looking for Mayflower descendants, hers and anyone else's.

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