Visit The Sky Islands of Arizona

06/01/2025

Looking ahead to cool weather and the ever fabulous PATAGONIA FALL FESTIVAL. The second week in October. Be there or miss a great time.

05/31/2025

A toast to Visit Nogales-Santa Cruz County for helping us spread the word on the local wine industry.

Experience what Napa was like before it became a luxe playground in Arizona, Texas, New York and North Carolina’s wine regions.

04/28/2025

Last week, the Paton Center had a V.I.O. (Very Important Owl) visit. I have had the chance to hear Flammulated Owls many times, but never actually got to see one, let alone get a pretty good photo!

03/31/2025

Trois The Shop at the Queen of Cups - April 26th noon to 6.

Elsie is back with her incredible vintage goods! She will be posted up all day on the patio, so stop on by for a glass of wine & some vintage shopping.

03/31/2025

Spring returns to the high desert grasslands of Arizona at The Meading Room 's 4th annual celebration of May Day Festival.

03/31/2025

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03/14/2025

Yummy, guaranteed.

feels like spring, so - spring things: that pizza with the preserved meyer lemons is back… snuggled in with sugar snap peas, burrata, herb pileup. pretty classy with a glass of our birthday girl’s eponymous white wine. here today until it isn’t 🍋🫛💥

01/28/2025

Sweet. Enjoy the special blend from two of the best purveyors of spirits in the Sky Islands The Meading Room and Queen of Cups.

01/11/2025

As many of you might know by now, the Paton Center for Hummingbirds has been hosting a fairly rare for a few weeks now. The Red (Taiga) subspecies of Fox Sparrow is primarily an east coast bird with the occasional vagrant showing up in SE Arizona. Much like all Fox Sparrows, they are a bit shy, tending to spent a lot of time hiding out in brush piles and dense hedgerows. Our visitor is true to form, only making the occasional apperance to grab a bit of food, or on very cold mornings, a bit of time warming up in the early morning sunshine.

After several attempts by me to get a couple of photos, the cold morning and perfect timeing on my part, found this beautiful bird out in the open.

On your next visit to the Paton Center, be sure to check with one of our volunteers to get the lastest loction of this rare visitor.

Tom Brown
Site Manager - Paton Center for Hummingbirds

12/27/2024

Thanks to the hard-working Tucson Audubon field crew and volunteers, the Paton Center is one of the more special spots in Patagonia.

12/03/2024

12/03/2024

Thanks, friends. We love Sonoita wines too.