Nina Berghausen Diana Madaras’ bold, colorful paintings capture the beauty of the desert in bloom. Explore the local flora and fauna through the eyes of an artist, including prickly pear blooms, wildflowers, and poppies, from July 1 through 31 at Madaras Gallery, located at 3035 N. Swan Road in Tucson. The gallery is open seven days…
Reading Between the Wines
Roving Ranchers Golf Cart Poker Run
Vagabonds Go to Tombstone
Paper Crafters Have Been Busy!
Features, July 2021
Desert in Bloom at Madaras Gallery
Generals, July 2021
Crafting Fun, Bringing Smiles
Jaine Toth The Robson Papercrafting Group helped bring smiles with their handmade cards at two different charitable organizations in May. Jaine Toth visited the Pinal County Animal Shelter on May 18 and presented 50 cards to Adoption Coordinator Braidy Susel. The intent is for them to hand them out to people adopting pets. Susel assured…
Clubs & Classes, July 2021
Fly With the Butterflies and Doreen
Nancy Friedman, Co-Education Chairman Butterflies were the topic of the day when Doreen Beers demonstrated how to paint butterflies in watercolor on May 18. Her six participants learned the wet-on-wet and wet-to-dry techniques of watercolor to start their basic butterflies, and then went on to embellish them with a white gel pen and black ink.…
Clubs & Classes, July 2021
57 Quilts and Afghans Delivered by Desert Threads
Sue Bart Our community service chair, Jody Edwards, with President Diana Jones, delivered 15 quilts to U.S. Veterans on May 14. They also delivered 31 kids’ quilts, nine adult quilts, and two knitted afghans to United Methodist Outreach Ministries (UMOM) in Phoenix. What was amazing about this delivery was that all of the quilts delivered…
Clubs & Classes, July 2021
Summer Dancing
Linda Gayer Summer at Robson Ranch brings hot temperatures, monsoon rains, and dust each afternoon. But if you go to the Sports Club, music will be playing in the aerobics room as Line Dancing Club members learn new choreography to favorite songs, as well as dance to old-time favorites. Although some of the dances are…
Generals, July 2021
Theater At the Ranch Relaunch Coming Soon
Deborah Dorman Shortly before COVID-19 required shut-downs and social distancing, a theater club was beginning to form here at Robson Ranch. The goals were to produce, to begin with, a summer and a winter play, by and for the residents of the Ranch. Other activities such as trips to attend performances, and possible classes and training in…