March 17, 2009
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I’m wearing my green shirt and looking for a 4-leaf clover! Cooking corned beef. Got some leprechauns hired to dance out in the front lawn. Hope you are celebrating, as well!
Tonight it's "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" at the Mesa Arts Center. I love to attend the theater! I used to see 60 - 80 shows a year, but now I'm down to only about twenty. I'd see more if I had people who wanted to commit themselves to buy season tickets with me.
For this Broadway series here in Mesa my hairdresser is my "theater buddy". She bought one of the seats this year. We sit on the front row, and this is the third of four shows this season from this company. The last show in May is "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels".
I also have season tickets at the Hale Centre Theatre, Broadway Palm Dinner Theater, Broadway Across America at Gammage, and Southwest Shakespeare Company. Is that all? Used to be I would have thirteen to fifteen sets of season tickets. My, how times have changed!
These are some of the series I have reluctantly given up:
***Valley Youth Theater
***Phoenix Theatre
***The Orpheum
***Theater Outback at Mesa Community College
***Arizona Jewish Theater Company
***East Valley Children's Theater
***Cookie Company
***Copperstate Dinner Theater
***Desert Foothills Theater
***Fountain Hills Community Theater
***Fountain Hills Youth Theater
***Queen Creek Performing Arts Center
***Arizona Theater Company
***Actors Theater of Phoenix
***Childsplay
***Tempe Little Theater
***Mesa Encore Theater
***Stageworks at MAC
***Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
***Desert Stages
***Stagebrush Theater
***Chandler Center for the Arts
***Citrus Valley Playhouse
***In Mixed Company
Whew, that's a lo-o-ong list! But I really did go to all those shows. Probably never all in the same season. Yes, there is an active theater community here in the Phoenix area. I have trouble just trying to remember who spells it "theater" and who spells it "theatre".
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
The White Trees Are In Bloom!
My mom was running errands in Downtown Mesa just now and she reports that the white trees are in bloom! Hurray! I've been waiting anxiously over a week for them to pop out! The entire tree is spectacularly white! Totally! No green shows at all. Most of them are by the Mesa Public Library. It lasts about ten days, and as the white trees start to fade, the pink trees begin to bloom. There are hot pink trees and regular pink trees. We cannot find as many of these, but there are some on University Drive near Stapley Drive. When they quit, we start looking for the orchid trees. Entire trees with these beautiful flowers covering them!
The citrus trees blossom, marking the start of the new citrus season. Trouble is, the trees often have last year's fruit all over when the new blossoms come in. My mom is always waiting just a little longer for the grapefruit to get sweet. Now, you and I know that the grapefruit is never going to get sweet. It's just not in the nature of grapefruit to have any sweetness at all. They're going to be sour and nasty no matter how long they hang on the tree! But my mom has a great imagination when it comes to grapefruit. So there'll be a tree loaded with blossoms, and also fully ripened fruit. Same with my lemon tree. I don't actually use lemons, but there's this huge lemon tree in the back yard of my other house, and it grows these Ponderosa Lemons, but no one picks them. I had a neighbor that liked them, but he died a few years ago, so there they sit. With new lemon blossoms.
The sour oranges grow in abundance. Nobody eats them, but they look pretty on the trees. We have them down the middle of Main Street, and also in the parking lot at the temple. They make for nice photo ops.
When the citrus trees end, it's not long before the jacaranda trees turn purple, and the mimosa trees are not far behind. Plus, the bottle brush trees and the bottle brush bushes. They're red.
We'll have a few weeks of winter interspersed here and there between the bloomings. Just because it's 80 degrees in January doesn't mean that winter is over. But the winter weeks are few and far between, and meanwhile we enjoy the lovely blooming trees and bushes. It's all part of what makes Arizona such a spectacular place to live!
The citrus trees blossom, marking the start of the new citrus season. Trouble is, the trees often have last year's fruit all over when the new blossoms come in. My mom is always waiting just a little longer for the grapefruit to get sweet. Now, you and I know that the grapefruit is never going to get sweet. It's just not in the nature of grapefruit to have any sweetness at all. They're going to be sour and nasty no matter how long they hang on the tree! But my mom has a great imagination when it comes to grapefruit. So there'll be a tree loaded with blossoms, and also fully ripened fruit. Same with my lemon tree. I don't actually use lemons, but there's this huge lemon tree in the back yard of my other house, and it grows these Ponderosa Lemons, but no one picks them. I had a neighbor that liked them, but he died a few years ago, so there they sit. With new lemon blossoms.
The sour oranges grow in abundance. Nobody eats them, but they look pretty on the trees. We have them down the middle of Main Street, and also in the parking lot at the temple. They make for nice photo ops.
When the citrus trees end, it's not long before the jacaranda trees turn purple, and the mimosa trees are not far behind. Plus, the bottle brush trees and the bottle brush bushes. They're red.
We'll have a few weeks of winter interspersed here and there between the bloomings. Just because it's 80 degrees in January doesn't mean that winter is over. But the winter weeks are few and far between, and meanwhile we enjoy the lovely blooming trees and bushes. It's all part of what makes Arizona such a spectacular place to live!
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