Archive for the ‘Burro Fire’ Tag
Marine Blue Butterfly On Buckbush Blossoms
Marine Blue Butterfly On Buckbush Blossoms
Lupine Blue Butterfly On Buckbush Blossoms -- Images by kenne
Fire On The Mountain
Down valley a smoke haze
Rises above the Catalinas
Six days of fire and heat
After 100 days of no rain.
I try to remember the smell of rain
Of mid-afternoon thunderstorms
In the Sky Islands of my beautiful desert
Nurturing wildflowers and butterflies.
I turn and go back to Mt. Lemmon
Thinking of the recent moments
Hiking with friends through young
aspens and pines
caught on steep ridges
Between heaven and earth.
-- kenne
Hikers in a New Aspen Grove Up from Marshall Gulch On Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne
In 2003 the Aspen Fire destroyed many homes in Summerheaven and thousands of acres on Mt. Lemmon. Last Friday the Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists led hike was on the Aspen Loop that goes through some of the areas destroyed, now recovered by new aspen and pine groves.
A precursor to the Aspen Fire was the Bollock Fire, 2002 in the eastern part of the Catalinas. Parts of the area burned in 2002 is now experiencing the Burro Fire that started Friday and has now consumed 9,000 acres. The Burro Fire is one of a half-dozen wildfires in the Coronado National Forest. Did I say it is hot and very dry in southeastern Arizona?
— kenne
Slideshow images by kenne
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Cumulus Congestus Cloud Over Smoke from the 
