Taliesin West, acclaimed as one of the finest works of Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the 20th century's greatest architects, is a National Historic Landmark situated on 550 acres of Sonoran desert.  Begun in 1937, the sprawling complex began life as Wright's "desert...

Having already had more than enough snow to last me a lifetime, I decided to take advantage of my newly acquired condition of being (semi-) retired and spend the winter in Phoenix and the surrounding "Valley of the Sun."  Considering the wrath which Mother Nature...