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Hummingbirds galore

WHEN Shirlene DeSantis's parents died eight years ago, she inherited a tumbledown mountain house near Arizona's Mexican border. She was in her late forties at the time, living in Alaska, and fed-up with the northern dark. So she traded her job for sunshine and moved into the old family home on the edge of Ramsey Canyon. But work in Southern Arizona is about as plentiful as daylight in Anchorage. The canyon had only one thing going for it, hummingbirds galore. So why not, Shirlene deduced, convert those hummingbirds into cash-cows?

"That," Shirlene explains, "was how the world's first hummingbird b&b got started." She tugs vaguely at her springy red hair, points to the mass of birdlets ...

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