Living with the Desert
Time Magazine, April 4, 2005
By Terry McCarthy/Tucson
A bobcat regularly saunters up the arroyo leading to Paul and Carolyn Zeiger’s desert property in Pima County, Ariz, and leaps onto the flat roof of their adobe-style house. “The bobcat jumps around up there and takes care of the mice,” says Carolyn, 61, a clinical psychologist from Boulder, Colo…the Zeigers have developed a deep love of the desert in the five years since they moved here.
Twenty miles from Tucson, their house looks out on a plain of saguaro cacti stretching to the Rincon Mountains. At night the stars shine brightly without competition from human lighting. Paul, 68, a semiretired software developer, gets all the hiking and bike riding he wants, and Carolyn attends lectures to learn how to grow desert plants in their yard. “You have to learn to adjust in the desert,” says Carolyn…more
