I received an arc of this title for an honest review. I loved this book with gorgeous pictures of nature that you can find througout the city.

It's not your everyday content but fascinating, nonetheless. Living in the city doesn't diminish our being one with nature. Plants manage to grow out of every orifice, as can be seen on the cracks of the sidewalk. Looking at something with fresh eyes. I have never heard of water harvesting and it is a great solution to water scarcity in the desert. Also, it snows in Tucson!

I really like how this book has high quality photography and how it gives a bit of information about what is in the photo. I love how in one part of the book there is recipes. I think that this book shows people that nature is everywhere even in citys, and alot of the time people forget this. Thank you for letting me read your book i really enjoyed this!

Most of us will need this book eventually. Some of us need it right now. The author spends a few pages on a memoir of how she wound up in Tucson, AZ, but the core of the book is water harvesting. She uses various methods of collecting scarce rainwater and re-using household water to grow a magnificent garden in the desert. Highly recommended.

Martha is an award winning photographer. She did BA in Economics but took her passion of Photography as her profession as a commercial freelancer.

She described her life relevant to the photography in this book. She depicted each memoir of her since her childhood till time. Though photos were average and not so peculiar to display but there are many spectators who like such things in exhibitions. This is more of a coffee table book than one of just home-shelf category. She displayed mostly her premise than one from varied geographical regions where she could have got better shots.
I liked her idea of using 1500 gallon cistern for rainwater collection and kinetic sculpture from scrap. Good to know about the lives of Doves. Would love more if she include additional details on vegetation with pics in her surrounding.

Some culinary/food-dressing ideas that she included are also very common and usual, nothing new.

Overall this is good book with over 60 limited pictures but what I appreciate more is the content of her life memoirs excluding pictures here.

Some lovely urban photography showing that moments of nature are all around, if we just look, and offering tips on how to nurture the wilderness that surrounds us. I particularly liked the pomegranate blossoms and doves!

Beautiful book. After reading the book, I recognise the cover picture as a snow pea flower and also the author's fasciantion with rain drops and leaves shapes. You will pick some photography, garden, rain harvestign tips. Love the chiaroscuro effect in the pictures. The pcitures make you stop and reflect on the beauty around us.