Rain

So there is a belief that you should not point to a rainbow.
Other than the female, male rains, AZ has fake alarm rains.

five alarm sunset

It gets its name from five alarm fire.

Kudzu vines

Miniatures at PHX

When I think of miniatures, I am taken back to a mini sketch of an African hoopla dancer, who even in the dance posture of a little bent forward had the pride seen in the side posture African statues.

Super Target

Clearly I have been sleeping when hypermarket joined the lexicon. In particular, missed the Target Greatland formation but caught up with Super Target. With its double entrance, seems like a double burger.
Their urban store concept is quite interesting. All ye, AZ people even if it is in mirages, go ahead and dream of a house with different architectures, may be a Greek porch and a Greek backyard. I dont even know what a Greek backyard looks like. - a momentary respite from the cookie cutter homes.
Well, since real ones are expensive, one could go for model miniature homes.

Harkins 25

I give up. What is this new place that I am driven by, where Harkins is Harkins 25 and Target is Super Target?
I am trying to figure why the 25? Then I find, there are hordes of theatres with a number suffix. New finding - Harkins Centerpoint which I should know in and out by now has a 11 attached to it. The only thing that I felt, it could point to was the number of screens at the theatre. Nope, that des not tally Harkins 25 has 21 while Harkins Centerpoint 11 has more than 11.
I have another explanation, most likely wrong till I find the right one. Harkins 25's rival is amc 24. Its already wrong. Harkins 25 opened in 1997 while amc 24 opened in 1999.

Investigation suspended until free minute time....

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Collecting flowers

I collected flowers of different colors and there were many more, but I thought few are fine - you get the idea. After going a little way up the mountain, I realised that few petals were just falling off by themselves. One light violet had four petals, two had fallen to the ground, one on to my right and the other to the left. I didnt feel like taking them back and just left the little boquet by a rock, to the mountain. I was wondering why I felt like collecting the flowers only this time. I had seen them a month ago too. This time, away from the trail, there was abundance of some medium size perfect looking yellow flowers on the slopes. Somehow I got this idea that such are the flowers which attract people like the 'La Belle Dame sans Merci'. I picked one such on the way back. After walking with it for a while, I realised the stem was bending.
I had seen an old man walk down with his collection of flowers. At the saddle, someone pointed out that the old man was 90 years old and he had come along with his 65 year old son.
One tip I followed: Never collect the only plant of a population.