Becca – Corona de Tucson

Dear Tucson,

When I was young, I didn’t know you. You were just a place on a map with a picture of a cactus in my World Book Atlas.

Growing up in upstate New York I knew snow. I knew maple trees and fresh apples and farm stands. Humidity and snow banks and thunderstorms. I didn’t know you. I didn’t know mesquite trees or monsoons or roadside honey stands.

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Now, I know. After living with you for 12 years, I know all those things. I also know about 110 degree days and which month is best for Eegee’s Flavor of the Month (July). I know about wearing sunscreen every day and not going outside without shoes in the summer–even just to grab the newspaper from your driveway.

I know to stay far away from jumping cacti and that flip flops can make crazy tan lines on your feet and that on game days the dress code for the entire city is red and blue. I know about Mexican food–something I never had in New York. I know the difference between and a flauta and a taquito (it’s in the tortilla) and I know how to cook (and eat) a proper fajita. These are things that I never dreamed I would know about when I was a little girl.

After 12 years, I know you. And I love you.

xo,

Becca

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Becca lives in the sea of ocotillo that is Corona de Tucson. I had never been to this part of our community before. I love how the desert comes right up to the doorstep, and that throughout the neighborhood the sidewalks and bike paths have significant use, even on the weekday morning I went out to see Becca. Made me begin to rethink my city dwelling ways a little. You can find Becca online at Our Crazy Boys and at Digital Media Consulting where she works wonders for small businesses and bloggers. You can check out more photographs from our time together on the Love Letters to Tucson Flickr account or Google +.
Thank you Becca

 

3 Responses to “Becca – Corona de Tucson”

  1. It is a wonderful thing to find the beauty of wherever we live. I love the way Becca describes Tuscon. I’d love to visit!

  2. This is such a lovely post. Oh no, you can’t go outside barefoot. I’m terrible about doing this in the summer. We have so much humidity in the summer in St. Louis and I often hear from others that have lived in AZ of the warm days but it is more bearable because of lower humidity. Are they correct?
    Hugs to you!

    • It is correct. Just returning from Montreal where it was sticky and warm and there was no a/c in the apartment. Of course, this time of year we’re ramping up for monsoons and it does get more humid then. If you have a/c it is bearable, but for those of us with evaporative cooling (swamp coolers) we’re out of luck. – Rachel

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