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Delicious pizza from Pizzicletta in Flagstaff, Arizona. Great toppings, unique pies. Plus homemade Gelato. 🍕🍨

Three Neapolitan pizzas in open white cardboard boxes, with charred crusts and toppings including mozzarella, tomato sauce, and sausage.
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Day 25 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Code

Micro.blog code.

Browser developer tools showing JavaScript code for an On This Day blog feature, with Network panel open and XML HTTP request visible.
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Outdoor dining.

Outdoor patio heaters glowing red and blue at night with string lights overhead and a white brick entrance behind.
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This “10 years” Easter Egg in the Apple Store app is fun.

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Day 24 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Baby

Baby Saguaro cactus! 🌵

Small saguaro cactus in a striped ceramic pot with a wooden name tag, sitting near a grassy backyard with a red soccer ball in the background.
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Day 23 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Banana

Tyler talking on the Banana-phone. 🍌📞

Young blond boy in a gray cap and purple shirt holding a banana to his ear like a phone outdoors.
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Day 22 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Spell

Good way to start the day. 🌅

Peach-colored poster with rainbow pattern reading Rise and Shine in dark red serif text, partially overlapping a light blue panel
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Day 21 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Colors

Technicolor Saguaro Cactus from our hike in Cave Creek. Edited with Procreate.

Saguaro cacti painted in vivid colors including red, purple, pink, and orange covering a desert hillside under a clear blue sky.
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Mazie and I at The Grotto Cafe after our hike in Cave Creek. The Grotto has an amazing outdoor patio space. It was Lucky’s first attempt at joining us at a restaurant and she did well until another dog showed up.

Man in a wide-brim hat and plaid shirt takes a selfie with a smiling girl at an outdoor patio with cacti and trees
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Hiking in Cave Creek

This morning we drove to Cave Creek Regional Park to go for a hike. It was about 40 minutes from where we are staying but well worth the drive. We did a loop heading out on Go John Trail, then to Quartz Trail, and then back on Slate Trail. We hiked 3.5 miles, gaining 425 feet, and took a total of 1h 22m.

GPS track of a 3.5-mile loop hike at Cave Creek Regional Park shown on satellite map, color-coded yellow and green by pace.

It was a really nice hike with great views. There were gentle climbs up but overall it was a nice trail that wasn’t overly difficult.

Brown Go John Trail sign on a desert dirt path leading toward a saguaro-covered hill under a clear blue sky.

There were Saguaro Cactus all over the place. 🌵

Tall saguaro cacti and cholla dot a desert hillside trail under a clear blue sky at Cave Creek Regional Park Saguaro cacti dotting a rocky desert hillside under a clear blue sky at Cave Creek Regional Park

Family selfie at the intersection of Go John and Quartz trails.

Family of four posing for a selfie at the Go John Trail and Quartz Trail junction signs in a desert landscape with saguaro cacti and hills behind them. Narrow dirt trail winding along a desert hillside densely populated with tall saguaro cacti under a clear blue sky Sonoran Desert valley with saguaro cacti and scrub brush, framed by rocky hills under a clear blue sky

The Quartz Trail has a lot of quartz on it. This huge outcropping of quartz was impressive.

Tall saguaro cactus with multiple arms stands on a desert hillside dotted with more saguaros, shrubs, and a rocky outcrop under a clear blue sky. Dozens of tall saguaro cacti covering a desert hillside under a clear blue sky at Cave Creek Regional Park Arizona

Lucky was tired out and incredibly dusty.

Fluffy white goldendoodle resting in the open cargo area of a white SUV with a Minnesota United FC bumper sticker

We also added an extra mile of hiking before this hike because we took off down this trail, and didn’t notice the “North” part. After going a half mile we turned around and started over on the right trail. Ooops!

Brown Go John Trail North sign for bikes, horses, and hikers at a desert trailhead, with saguaro-covered hills behind.