Father and Sons In Sabino Creek — Photo-Artistry by kenne
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Father and Sons — A Life Teaching Moment 2 comments
Spring Break at Sabino Creek Leave a comment
Spring Break at Sabino Creek — Image by kenne
Children enjoy their
Spring break at Sabino creek
I turn and go back.
— kenne
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Water In The Canyon II Leave a comment
Water In The Canyon II — Image by kenne
Spring temps near eighty
Icy cold water flows —
Swarms of new insects.
— kenne
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Three Panoramas of Water Running In Sabino Creek Leave a comment
Above the Dam
Water Flowing Over The Dam
Creek Flow At The Dam Low-Water Crossing
Three Panoramas of Water Running In Sabino Creek, the First Time in Months — Images by kenne
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January In Sabino Canyon Leave a comment
January In Sabino Canyon (View from the Bluff Trail, January 1, 2018) — Panorama by kenne
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Sun Through The Trees Leave a comment
Sun Through the Trees Near Sabino Creek — Image by kenne
This is autumn by the creek
almost anything can happen.
This is where you will find
the first morning light,
little fish in small stagnant pools —
Do they sense time is running out?
— kenne
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Creek Reflections Leave a comment
Creek Reflections — Computer Art by kenne
Sky above,
water below,
or is it
the other way around —
it’s your call
in our upside-down
world.
— kenne
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Children, A Stream And Connecting With Nature Leave a comment
Children, a Stream, and Connecting with Nature — Computer Art by kenne
A picture may seem not what it is.
Two teens may appear more interested in a
phone than a stream slowly passing at their feet.
Like most images, it’s up to the viewer
to place it in some element of their reality.
Put in the contact the image was taken,
the teens are sharing pictures taken in
my iPhone photography class where they
learn to connect the eye, to the mind, to the heart.
— kenne
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Sabino Creek Above The Dam 1 comment
Sabino Creek Above The Dam — Image by kenne
Desert Oasis
Shaded escape from the heat —
Nature’s waterhole.
Sometimes drying up
Before the monsoon season —
Desert high and dry.
— kenne
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Predator And Prey 1 comment
On Thursday of this past week, Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists were teaching two first grade classes about predator and prey in a program we call “Now You See It.” My responsibility for the month of April is to coordinate the Thursday schedule with the teachers. Once the children are in the canyon, my job is one of “managing by walking around.”
While in the riparian area near the creek and dam I could hear a nearby cooper’s hawk. Following the sound, I spotted him on a dead limb high above the creek where he had caught a small bird. What a “real time” example of predator and prey for the day’s lesson. What follows are images and a video of the encounter, which I shared with the children.
— kenne
(Click on any of the tiled images for a larger view in a slideshow format.)
Cooper’s Hawk Images and Video by kenne
Predator And Prey — Cooper’s Hawk
The varying modes of flight exhibited by our diurnal birds of prey
have always been to me a subject of great interest,
especially as by means of them I have found myself enabled
to distinguish one species from another,
to the farthest extent of my power of vision.
— John James Audubon
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Solitude — “I’ll Take Mine On The Rocks!” 1 comment
“Spring On The Rocks” (Sabino Creek near the dam.) — Image by kenne
“When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion.
It glides over you without shape or form, exactly like water.
Its color is silver.
And silence has a sound you hear only after hours of wading inside it.
The sound is soft, like flute notes rising up, like the words of glass speaking.
Then there comes a point when you must shatter the blindness of its words,
the blindness of its light.”
― Anne Spollen, The Shape of Water
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Water Over The Bridge — Photo Essay Leave a comment
Recent rains at the lower levels of the Santa Catalina Mountains and snow on Mt. Lemmon have resulted in Sabino Creek flowing over the low-water bridges in Sabino Canyon. These bridges were built in the 1930’s and are still providing tram access almost four miles into the canyon for visitors.
The current water level is down quite a bit from a week ago when the bridges were all covered entirely by the flowing water, now the over the bridge flow is maintained by the daily snowmelt on Mt. Lemmon.
— kenne
Images by kenne
(Click on any of the images for a larger view in a slideshow format.)
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High Water Over Low Water Crossing Leave a comment
High Water Over Low Water Crossing (Bear Canyon Bridge, January 1, 2017) — Image by kenne
I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain
I’ve seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I’d see you again
Been walking…
— from Fire and Rain by James Taylor
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Winter Rains And High Water 1 comment
Winter Rains and High Water Over The Sabino Dam — Image by kenne
Now you see it, now you don’t is a good way of describing water in the desert. Just three weeks ago there was no water coming over the dam in Sabino Canyon. We had about an inch over the weekend with much more up in the mountains that will continue to cause flow over the dam for a while now.
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Aster Wildflower In Late Fall 1 comment
Aster Wildflower In Late Fall — Image by kenne
Aster wildflower
Near a creek with no water —
No time for weeping.
— kenne
