My Darlin' and I have lived here in the Tucson Mountains for more than a decade. She's a transplanted Jersey Shore girl, and I've lived all over the western hemisphere. Our neighbors hail from locales as diverse as Cook Inlet, Alaska, Vancouver, British Columbia and the American Midwest.
What we all have in common is a love for the outdoors.
Outdoor living is special no matter where we come from, but there's a magical quality to Tucson that captures our visitors and draws them back. It's the light.
Artists and photographers from around the world visit Tucson to capture that light on canvas or paper, and take it home with them.
Topography and architecture create different moods as the sun courses through the day. A photo of that Mexican Blue Oak would be ordinary, except for a single shaft of afternoon light shining into the canyon, painting its blue-green leaves yellow.
And doesn't the architectural detail of the ramada in the afternoon sun make you want to take a nap in that hammock?
There's another thing that makes outdoor living in Tucson so enjoyable: we have no gnats. No mosquitoes. No black flies. No biting, annoying, buzzing, blood-sucking insects requiring screened-in porches, cans of bug spray, or that favorite of the Jersey Shore, bug zappers. (You know, those outdoor lights that attract and then electrocute the little monsters.)
The absence of these nasty little insects allows Tucsonans the luxury of creating outdoor rooms that are extensions of our indoor living areas.
Except for the hottest days of summer, entertaining in the Old Pueblo is an outdoor enjoyment. And even in summer, when the days are scorchers, we enjoy outdoor living and entertaining at night.
You see, that special quality of light that brings magic to this little corner of the planet doesn't end when the sun goes down, the moon rises, and the stars come out.
The atmosphere in Tucson is (usually) so clear, the air so clean that even nightfall has its own magic. Isn't it time you decided to come visit us?
I'm Mike in Tucson, your preferred Tucson, AZ Mortgage lender.
Think of me as your Tucson mortgage expert.
Call me if I can help you with a mortgage to buy your next house:
(520) 349-9090
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