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• A Few of Kenne’s Photos (Click on any image to see in slideshow)

  

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  Turkey Vulture at Tanque Verde Wash

  

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  Virginia & Jim At The Hunter Trail Saddle

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  Domingo DeGrazia’s Spanish-guitar band

  

  Carpenter bee on sneezeweed

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  Audrey, Joy, Hannah and Kenne

  

  

  Ed On Marshell Gulch Trail

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  SCVN Weds Walk 08-01-12

  

  

  Chase & Grandma Joy

  

  

  

  

  

  Kate and Jaxon

  

  

  Friday with Friends & Molino Basin to Prison Camp

  

  

  

  

  

  

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  Southern California September 2012

  

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  Doves, Lightening, Hiking

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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  La Milagrosa Loop Hikers

  

  

  

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