7 Falls Spring Hike — Image by kenne
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7 Falls Spring Hike 2 comments
Saguaros In The Canyon 2 comments
Saguaros In The Canyon — Image by kenne
Canyon walls echo—
saguaros stand, arms outstretched,
silent sentinels.
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Seven Falls Hike 1 comment
Photo-artistry by kenne
The thin layer in which life exists is both fragile and resilient;
the earth does not need us, which is why we should care about it.
— Eric Walsh
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Rancho Fundoshi Above Bear Canyon Creek Leave a comment
Rancho Fundoshi Above Bear Canyon Creek — Images by kenne
“Where I was born and where and
how I have lived is unimportant.
It is what I have done with where I
have been that should be of interest.”
— Georgia O’Keeffe
In Sabino Canyon Recreation Area, if you hike to Seven Falls, you walk the Bear Canyon road to Bear Canyon trail,
which crosses the Bear Canyon creek seven times. South of the trailhead sets a house on a cliff above the creek
outside the Sabino Canyon Recreation Area. Since 2010, I have hiked to Seven Falls several times and may
have noticed the house but was more focused on the hike.
Yesterday, a group of us older, now slow hikers hiked the newly paved Bear Canyon road to the Bear Canyon trailhead,
taking a trail south to get a better view of the house on the cliff, where I took a few images of the house.
After discussing the possible owners, I decided to do a Google search once I got home. I first did a drag & drop
in Google Images with no match. So, started a Google search using a few descriptors. I learned that
about 65 years ago, Jack Segurson, a local high school wrestling, and swimming coach and teacher from the 1950s
into the late 1980s, bought the 151-acre property that he lived on, cherished, and mold into a
naturalist’s paradise — it became become his legacy.
Segurson died at age 90 in 2011, and soon afterward, an appraiser valued his land at $3.9 million.
He left the property to The Nature Conservancy with restrictions that it never be sold or developed.
The Nature Conservancy donated the property, which Segurson named “Rancho Fundoshi,” a fundoshi
is a Sumo wrestler’s loincloth to Pima County. The Pima County Regional Flood Control District
manages the property as open space and owns and manages other lands along Bear Canyon
and Sabino Canyon as part of its riparian habitat and upper watershed preservation program.
— kenne
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Brittlebush Blooming Along the 7 Falls Trail 1 comment
Brittlebush Blooming Along the 7 Falls Trail In Sabino Canyon (03/20/15)– Image by kenne
Brittlebush blooming
Yellow, the color of spring
Brightens the desert.
— kenne
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Spring Break At Seven Falls Leave a comment
Spring Break At Seven Falls in the Sabino Canyon Recreation Area — HDR Image by kenne
May my feet always touch the earth
Stretching from the desert to the mountains
While I’m still able to hike on the rocks
Made by fire and time.
— kenne
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Out Of The Blue And Into The Black Leave a comment
7 Falls In Bear Canyon — Image by kenne
Hey hey, my my
Rock and roll can never die
There’s more to the picture
Than meets the eye
Hey, hey, my, my
Out of the blue and into the black
You pay for this, but they give you that
And once you’re gone, you can’t come back
When you’re out of the blue and into the black
— from Hey Hey, My My by Neil Young
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“Ooh, It Makes Me Wonder” 4 comments
If There’s A Heaven . . . — Image by kenne
A detour off the trail
Slower hikers miss the turn,
A stairway to heaven.
“Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.”
— kenne
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Seeking The Tao Of Observation Leave a comment
The Photographer — Image by kenne
THE PHOTOGRAPHER
The photographer (artist)
seeks to connect what
is already connected, the
past, present, and future
in a moment of existence
while being a traveler
in other people’s reality
sharing an awareness
of the present experience.
An awareness of the moment
with the whole being, the artist
is of the experience —
the essence of existence.
The artist desires to share
the essence, but the resulting image
is about the experience, not
of the experience —
the Tao of observation.
In the process
of capturing an event
the photographer feels
and sees in the moment,
the Tao of an event —
the Tao that is projected
is outside the moment
hence is not the
essence of Tao.
— kenne
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Reflections Leave a comment
Reflections — Image by kenne
Tell me what you see.
It may not be what you think.
Water reflections.
— kenne
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Rainbow Over Tanuri Ridge Leave a comment
Rainbow Over Tanuri Ridge (September 1, 2016) — Image by kenne
A sunset rainbow
As rain moves off the mountain —
No pot of gold found.
— kenne
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SCVN Training — Day 1 3 comments
Sabino Canyon Tour Led By David Wentworth Lazaroff (September, 2011) — Image by kenne
Yesterday was day one of training for the 20115/16 Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists (SCVN) class. It was just four years ago that I was part of the 2011 class. This year, as then the first day included a tram tour of the canyon by David Lazaroff, naturalist, author and founder of SCVN.
Like a kid, the first day of class was very exciting, getting to know fellow classmates, our naturalists leaders and meeting David Lazaroff. His book, Sabino Canyon — The Life of a Southwestern Oasis, is a must read for all naturalists in southern Arizona.
Yesterday’s first day for the new class brought back many memories as I was there to greet the new class members. This morning, before writing this post, I viewed again a video I made in 2011 of Lazaroff’s tour of Sabino Canyon. As per his request, the video is available only for SCVN members.
I love going to Sabino Canyon!
I love going to Sabino Canyon,
a place to come together with nature.
I love the people there,
sharing feelings with nature.
I love being able to see
the beauty of nature.
I love going to Sabino Canyon!
I love being able to reflect
on the art of nature.
I love close-up encounters
with all things in nature.
I love capturing the moment,
drawing inspiration from nature.
I love going to Sabino Canyon!
I love learning new ways
to connect with nature.
I love getting to know me
by connecting with nature.
I love finding surprising things
by getting to know nature.
I love going to Sabino Canyon!
I love the feelings of being alive
by walking with nature.
I love knowing that
forever is the life of nature.
I love knowing that
all that is, is nature.
I love going to Sabino Canyon!
— kenne
This video was first posted on this blog March of 2010, a few months before we moved from The Woodlands, Texas
to Tucson, and a year and a half before beginning training to become a naturalist.
Viewing this video now reminds me how little I knew about the Sonoran Desert,
still it’s a reflection of my love for this southwestern oasis.
To the new SCVN class: If you like Sabino Canyon now, you will learn to love it!
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Grunge Art Landscape — Now And In The Past Waiting For The Future Leave a comment
Grunge Art Landscape by kenne
“The philosophy of the populists was that you can’t have political democracy if you don’t have economic democracy. Justice Brandeis put it plainly: ‘You can have democracy in this country or you can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but you can’t have both.’ When I get a chance, I go out and talk about this thing, write about it, and preach about it.”
Merle Hansen, 74 (Newman Grove, Nebraska)
— from “Coming of Age – The Story of Our Century By Those Who’ve Lived It” by Studs Terkel
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Storms Move Into The Santa Catalina’s 6 comments
Storms Move Into the Santa Catalina’s (August 31, 2015) — Images by kenne
A reported 5 inches of rain on Mt. Lemmon in the last 24 hours.
My rain gauge in the Catalina foothills recorded .5 of an inch.
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Saguaros Under Attack — A Photographic Essay 2 comments
Saguaros are a very slow-growing cactus. A plant two feet in height may be 16 years old on its way to 25 feet and over 175 years old.
In the early years of life they are more susceptible to heat, drought and freezing temperatures. By the time they are five feet or more they have endured many harsh conditions, and in some cases, mistreatment by humans.
This is a photographic essay of saguaros along a popular trail in the Sabino Canyon Recreation Area. For some strange reason, some people like to cut the tops off, or in general slice these beautiful icons of the Sonoran Desert. As you can see, most are survivors, continuing their slow growth.
It is not easy to stop aggression toward nature, but through education human aggression can be better channeled. The more people can experience nature, the more likely they will develop positive feeling toward the natural environment. Most people, when asked who they are, will answer by talking about the landscape from which they come, which reflects positive feeling of familiarity and security in that environment.
When I talk
about Sabino Canyon
I mean myself,
my home,
my state of mind.
Some don’t get what I say,
maybe it’s because
we don’t talk the same language.
All I can say to those I meet:
“Try and make it to Sabino Canyon.”
kenne
Damaged Saguaro Cactus in Sabino Canyon — Images by kenne
(Click on any of the images for larger view in a slide-show format.)
