Out On The Trail (Ventana Canyon Trail) — Image by kenne
I could never resist the call of the trail.
— Buffalo Bill
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Ventana Canyon Looking Down To The Tucson Basin — Image by kenne
“After a day’s walk, everything has twice its usual value.”
— G.M. Trevelyan
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Oh, This Is Going To Be Easy 4 comments
Caricature by Dave Fitzsimmons and Images by Joy
Joy invited me to attend this month’s luncheon meeting of the Old Pueblo Women’s Club, which took place at the Lodge at Ventana Canyon.
The speaker was Dave Fitzsimmons, a recently retired internationally known journalist/cartoonist. At one point in his amusing presentation,
he walked over to our table and said, “Isn’t this a woke organization, and your name is Ms.” We went up to his drawing pad, took one look at me and said,
“Oh, this is going to be easy.”
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Saguaro Sunrise — Image by kenne
“The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery,
then our labor satisfies. We are lightened when our gifts rise from pools we cannot fathom. Then we know they are
not a solitary egotism and they are inexhaustible.”
— Lewis Hyde
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Ventana Canyon — Images by kenne (Click On Any Image for Slideshow View)
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Bighorn Fire Images — Marty Horowitz 2 comments
Bighorn Fire (Sabino Canyon Smoke) — Images by Marty Horowitz
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Saguaro Cactus Are Being Destroyed By The Bighorn Fire 3 comments
Lower Ventana Canyon (02/20/15) — Photo-Artistry by kenne
The Bighorn Fire has been burning for days in Ventana Canyon.
I love hiking in this beautiful narrow canyon. The lower part of
this canyon contains a lot of desert plants, such as the saguaro cactus.
This Sonoran Desert signature cactus is not adaptive to fire.
Thousands have already been destroyed by the Bighorn Fire.
It may take hundreds of years to return, if at all. Sad, very sad.
— kenne
Ventana Canyon (Note Invasive Grass in the Foreground) — Photo-Artistry by kenne
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The Santa Catalinas Are Covered In Smoke 1 comment
Smoke covers the Catalinas today. With the use of Photoshop and a Dehaze filter,
I created this less smokey image. — kenne
Under androgynous sky
Sun or moon
Father or mother
The camera never lies
But the photographer
Knows how to fib
— Patrick Jennings
(The Bighorn Fire remains only 19% contained.)
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Bighorn Fire In Ventana Canyon 6 comments
Ventana Canyon is where we first hiked in the Catalinas in ten years ago.
Since then, I’ve hiked the trail into the canyon a least twice a year.
This image was taken last night (June 19, 2020).
This image is what it looked like this morning. Before dawn, you could still see the fireline.
I decided to drive up Craycroft Road to get a closer look. As the sun got higher in the east
I was able to get this image. It’s a good thing I had a mask, the smoke and smell were pronounced.
(Because of COVID-19, the county has mandated everyone wear a mask in public.)
— Images by kenne
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Ventana Canyon — Panorama by kenne
(In this image, you see the Tucson basin with the Santa Rita Mountains in the distance.)
“Life is like riding a Bicycle.
To keep your balance,
you must keep moving.”
— Albert Einstein
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Narrow Trail In The Canyon — Image by kenne
Picture taking time
On a narrow canyon trail
As the clouds move in.
— kenne
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Hiking Ventana Canyon — December 13, 2019 3 comments
Hiking Ventana Canyon — December 13, 2019 — Photo-Essay by Kenne
Ventana Canyon is one of several narrow canyons in the southern front range of the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, Arizona. This hike is usually scheduled each fall and spring by the Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists, which involves crossing water over a dozen times.
— kenne
