Golden Columbine Wildflower — Image by kenne
“Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slanted yellow light.”
— Paul Monette
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Golden Columbine Wildflower 4 comments
Agua Caliente Trail In The Catalina Mountains Leave a comment
Agua Caliente Trail In The Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne
Its name means “hot waters”
and originated from the abundance
of hot springs originally found in the area.
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Morning In Sabino Canyon 5 comments
Morning In Sabino Canyon — Image by kenne
Most people who love being in nature
Have a place on earth that’s really dear to them,
A spiritual place, a place that invigorates them.
I do have such a place, Sabino Canyon, in Tucson.
The canyon easily occupies my mind as I enjoy
The scenery underneath a nice shade of blue sky.
— kenne
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Sonoran Desert Tortoise 2 comments
Sonoran Desert Tortoise Spotted On The SCVN Lizard Walk (August 3, 2024) — Images by kenne
The Sonoran Desert tortoise, or Morafka’s desert tortoise, is a species of terrestrial chelonian
reptile of the family Testudinidae native to the Sonoran Desert.
Source: Wikipedia
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Roseate Skimmer Dragonfly 3 comments
Roseate Skimmer Dragonfly — Image by kenne
I spotted this roseate skimmer on the SCVN Lizard Walk this past Saturday morning, down by Sabino Creek.
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View North From Butterfly Trail Leave a comment
View North from Butterfly Trail on Mt. Lemmon
‘The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.’
– James Baldwin
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Sabino Canyon Lizard Walk Leave a comment
A small group of us braved the mid-morning desert heat in Sabino Canyon to conduct an SCVN lizard walk.
(August 3, 2024)
Common Side-blotched Lizard
Common Side-blotched Lizard
Common Side-blotched Lizard
Greater Earless Lizard
Greater Earless Lizard
Greater Earless Lizard
Gila Monster — Images by kenne
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Mushroom On Mt. Lemmon 2 comments
Orange Cap Mushroom On Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne
“One doesn’t stop seeing.
One doesn’t stop framing.
It doesn’t turn off and turn on.
It’s on all the time.”
— Annie Leibovitz
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Summer Monsoon Clouds 2 comments
Summer Monsoon Clouds As Seen From Our Patio — Image by kenne
Summer monsoon clouds
Below and above mountains
Soon, they will bring rain.
— kenne
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Shadows On The Catalina Foothills Leave a comment
Shadows On The Catalina Foothills — Image by kenne
Late afternoon sun
Case shadows on the mountains
Moving quickly by.
— kenne
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Desert Orangetip Butterfly Painting Leave a comment
Desert Orangetip Butterfly Painting by kenne
They are on the go
Moving blossom to blossom
Part of nature’s plan.
— kenne
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Ash Throated Flycatcher 2 comments
Ash Throated Flycatcher — Image by kenne
On my morning walks
Birds can be seen everywhere
Look, you too will see.
— kenne
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Rock Squirrel 1 comment
Rock Squirrel — Image by kenne
I like squirrels; they can be fun to watch.
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Coprin de Romagnesi Mushrooms 2 comments
Coprin de Romagnesi Mushrooms Image by kenne
The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants
The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants –
At Evening, it is not
At Morning, in a Truffled Hut
It stop opon a Spot
As if it tarried always
And yet it’s whole Career
Is shorter than a Snake’s Delay –
And fleeter than a Tare –
’Tis Vegetation’s Juggler –
The Germ of Alibi –
Doth like a Bubble antedate
And like a Bubble, hie –
I feel as if the Grass was pleased
To have it intermit –
This surreptitious Scion
Of Summer’s circumspect.
Had Nature any supple Face
Or could she one contemn –
Had Nature an Apostate –
That Mushroom – it is Him!
— Emily Dickinson
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Bee On Santa Catalina Prairie Clover 2 comments
Bee On Santa Catalina Prairie Clover — Image by kenne
“I like to think of landscape not as a fixed placed
but as a path that is unwinding before my eyes, under my feet.”
— Gretel Ehrlich
