This book is a pictorial volume containing about 100 color photographs and is approximately 105 pages in length.The Boyce Thompson Arboretum is an absolutely wonderfully serene and astonishing place to visit. Nestled in the mountains on highway 60 about three miles from the mining town of Superior and about 60 miles east of Phoenix it is now a state park and contains desert flora from countries all over the world. There are many well-maintained trails and the area is well suited for hikers, bird photographers, and landscape photographers and indeed for anyone who would like to spend a relaxing day outdoors.The author began photography and photo-journalism in early 1963 when he accepted an offer from his local newspaper to write about and photograph sports events at the Arizona high school where he was a junior.After a stint in the service, he had an opportunity to study photography and printing techniques with Bernard Hoffman, a true gentleman and scholar, and one of the earliest staff photographers for Life Magazine. Since that time he has had thousands of photographs and hundreds of articles published by more than 60 national and international periodicals. He was also a contributing editor for one of them for more than ten years. Topics ran the gamut from professional sports, medicine, archeology, and photography to science.After twenty years away from Arizona he returned in 1985 and it has been the base from which all his photographic excursions are launched. Along with many others he has embraced digital photography but can still be seen, from time to time, peering through the ground glass of a large format camera, hoisting a large medium format 6x7, or indeed still using a 35mm film camera. In addition, the author is represented by more than a dozen agencies and all of these images have appeared in publications around the world.The photographer currently has fine art photography on exhibit at The Center for Fine Arts in Globe, Arizona.