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22 520- 237-2414 CHARLIE MEAKER cmeaker@gotucson.com FEATURED HOMES This Month 38 PIEDRA DRIVE A TOTAL REMODEL! THREE BEDROOMS ON THREE ACRES - EVERYTHING’S NEW AND READY FOR YOU! All new everything - Deluxe kitchen, tile and carpet, windows, doors, paint inside and out. Great Room design, mountain views, quiet street. Must See! $499,000 Celebrating 30 Years in Tubac! IT’S A BUYER’S MARKET! There are over 100 resale homes listed for sale in Tubac, at princes ranging from $229,000 to a cool $12 Million! The Owners are waiting anxiously for your offer! Give me a call, and I’ll help you find the home that’s just right for you! On the other hand... If you’re thinking of listing your property, please give me a call. I will give you a free market analysis, work for you on open houses, if desired, and “spread the word” with advertising in all media and the internet. 256 MARKET CIRCLE BANK-OWNED PROPERTY - NEVER LIVED-IN! The popular St. Francis model, w/Casita! Three bedrooms, 3 baths, den/office. Upgrades include beamed ceiling, granite, outdoor gas fireplace in the courtyard. The bank wants it sold, that’s why they’ve priced it at only $321,900 OTHER FINE HOMES! - Call for a showing! 40 DIEGO RIVERA - 2BR Town Home $249,000 15 CIELITO 4BR, Pool, Much More! $645,000 59 KEATING CIRCLE 3BR, Views! $499,000 12 NIELSON LANE Trees, Guest House $575,000 22B NIELSON LANE 3BR, Views, Privacy $375,000 2251 PALO PARADO 4BR, Big Yard, Views $325,000 6 TROCITO CT. 3BR, Pool, Privacy! $459,000 49 PIMERIA ALTA The General’s House - Fix `er up! $460,000 TUBAC HOME SALES - Resale home sales as reported by MLS - 1/1/09 - 1/20/09 NOTE: Each month, we will report on Home Sales, using MLS DATA. Questions or Comments? Call or e•mail! CAMINO KENNEDY – FORTY ACRES at the north end of Tubac Foothills Ranch. Several great building sites. Views all around. Adjoins state land on the north. Can be split into three parcels. Electric at the lot line. Investment Potential! OFFERED AT $199,000. KENYON RANCH RD – 8 ACRES – 360 VIEWS – JUST A HALF MILE FROM TOWN! This parcel has more than one building site, and views of all the mountain ranges from Mexico to the Catalinas. GR Zoning – can be split. Electric and phones on the property. OFFERED AT $259,000. CIRCULO BAUTISTA – TUBAC RIO CRUZ - 5.41 ACRES in Tubac Rio Cruz, a small gated community at the north end of Tubac. Astounding mountain views, paved street, utilities at the lot line. Level building site. Ready for your fabulous new home! $215,000 – a steal! AMADO - 5 ACRES, Mountain Views - $125,000. ADDRESS AREA DESCRIPTION SALES PRICE $ PER SQ. FT DAYS ON MARKET 24 CALLE MARIA ELENA SANTIAGO - BARRIO DE TUBAC 2 br on 1/3 Acre, Built 2005, FORECLOSURE PROPERTY $334,000 $128.61 17 Made in Tubac Th e Gourd Collection Gourd Figures, Gourd Lamps and Gourd Masks Presented by: Quilts Ltd Gallery 7 Camino Otero Tubac, Az (800) 255 2306 TEXT: TUBAC C HARLIE TO : 48696 Ad Information Tubac Listings Tubac Map Articles Images Art online at www.tubacvillager.com
Top Left: A Queen butterfl y, a cottonwood leaf, and an ear of a Santa Rita prickly pear cactus can each deliver fi tting visual symbolism. Bottom Left: Love in the desert, here in Mexico, can occasionally be witnessed as literal. Th e Borderlands Photographer Love in the Desert Text and Photos by Murray Bolesta Valentine’s Day can inspire even the most grizzled borderlands photographer to refl ect on the gentle topic of love, becoming mawkish with sentimentality. I won’t claim a romantic mastery of this topic, and there isn’t exactly a shortage of discussion of love, even by photographers who are customarily mute and surly. But we’re in the season, and in the mood, so why not go for it. Th e task of capturing love in the desert with a lens can take the borderlands photographer into fanciful fl ights of lyrical abstraction and visual symbolism. Literally fi nding love, as in two potential soul-mates (both with Nikons) stumbling across each other in some remote canyon, is not necessarily what I mean in this article. (However, serendipity of this sort is not outside the realm of possibility, so don’t give up hope. My luck, though, would be to encounter a well-armed border agent on patrol.) Instead, the nature photographer’s task is to capture the pastoral equivalent of an urban romance, to record a backcountry symbol or token of the act or existence of love. Mother Nature gives us so many examples. It’s motherly love in the extreme. Th e borderlands photographer’s Valentine mixture of outdoor photos should include images reminiscent of love, tugging on the heartstrings of the viewer and creating a vivid and compelling picture. Th ese include symbols reminiscent of a heart. Th ere are lots of these to be found in nature, from cacti to leaves to shadows. Symbolic also, are intertwined vines and closely-matched pairs of just about anything. For the photographer, pairs of critters are a bit fewer and farther-between than a single one. A compelling photo of a solo animal, whether a bird or a mammal, is often hard enough to achieve. But from time to time a photographer will catch a pair close enough together to suggest aff ection in their behavior. Togetherness between any critters, displayed peacefully, is almost always a Valentine winner in photography. Th e true emotion of love between critters is a notion I’ll leave to be pondered by others, but an instinctive appearance of such behavior, or an imitation of love, especially in the wild, is a goal of many nature photographers. Th e “aww” factor rises exponentially for any wildlife photo depicting tenderness or intimacy. Taking the study a bit further afi eld, and still in our glorious borderlands outdoors, one can explore abstracted tangents of love, such as the pastoral nurturing of the land by a gardener tilling a row of heritage crops at Tumacácori Mission, or the compassion symbolized by a barrel of water left in the Ironwood Forest by humanitarians to aid desperate migrants. Further, the painstaking stabilization of a crumbling adobe structure is a depiction of love for our borderland cultural heritage. Mother Nature’s monsoon rainfall to replenish a parched desert landscape is also a powerful nurturing symbol. For you, the lonely photographer wandering from mountain to valley, discovering these actions and symbols and recording them via the camera, can help replenish your own spirit and all those who share your love of borderland imagery. Murray Bolesta’s CactusHuggers Photography specializes in borderland images and supports the preservation of southern Arizona’s natural, rural, and cultural heritage. Murray’s home gallery in Green Valley can be visited by appointment and he can be reached at www.CactusHuggers.com. Images Top Right: With not too much imagination, even the lowly pincushion cactus, in the correct position, can suggest the charm of a motherchild pairing. Mid Right: My “Deer Crossing” photo from Buenos Aires N.W.R. conveys impressions of intertwined friendship. 23 Lower Right: Th e male jackrabbit, like human males, displays much silliness within the mating ritual as a queenly female feigns disinterest. Botom Right: A love bite implies aff ection
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