Sabino Canyon – View from Above Rattlesnake Creek — Image by kenne
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Desert Flower II — Image by kenne
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Sabino Canyon Panoramic Images by kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Panoramic Photos of Esperero Trail And Rattlesnake Creek 1 comment
Esperero Trail In Sabino Canyon — Two Images Merged In Photoshop by kenne
Rattlesnake Creek In Sabino Canyon — Three Images Merged In Photoshop by kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Mexican Poppies Out Along The Trail 2 comments
Mexican Poppies Along the Esperero Trail in Esperero Canyon, February, 2012 — Images by kenne (Click Here For Flickr Slideshow)
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Capturing The Moment — Desert Chicory Leave a comment
Desert Chicory — Image by kenne
When I’m in New Orleans, I love to have chicory and coffee at Cafe Du Monde. But here in the Sonoran Desert, I love my chicory desert type — Desert Chicory. These beautiful desert flowers were captured along the Esperero Trail in Esperero Canyon on the 24th of February.
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Show me a piece of land that God forgot—
a strip between an unused sidewalk, say,
and a bulldozed lot, rich in broken glass—
and there, July on, will be chicory,
its leggy hollow stems staggering skyward,
its leaves rough-hairy and lanceolate,
like pointed shoes too cheap for elves to wear,
its button-blooms the tenderest mauve-blue.
How good of it to risk the roadside fumes,
the oil-soaked heat reflected from asphalt,
and wretched earth dun-colored like cement,
too packed for any other seed to probe.
It sends a deep taproot (delicious, boiled),
is relished by all livestock, lends its leaves
to salads and cooked greens, but will not thrive
in cultivated soil: it must be free.
(Source: The Writer’s Almanac)
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Desert Chicory with Fiddleneck friends — Images by kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Cleared For Landing 2 comments
“Cleared for Landing” — Images by kenne taken along the Esperero Trail, February 24, 2012
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Barrel Cactus — Image taken along the Esperero Trail in the Santa Catalina mountains by kenne
This is a common site in the Sonoran Desert. Mature barrel cactus can grow to over three feet and weigh several hundred pounds. They do take on a lot of water, but that they have a shallow root system and tend to lean toward the should can result in the leaning weight become too much for the root system to hold it upright.
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Esperero Trail Hike To Cardiac Gap 5 comments
View of east Tucson, with the Santa Rita Mountains in the distance, from Cardiac Gap. Image by kenne (01/13/12)
The Esperero Trail, which begins at the Cactus Picnic Area in Sabino Canyon, is well-known by local hikers. The trail goes through Rattlesnake and Bird canyons before it becomes a series of switchbacks up into Esperero Canyon. If hiked in it entirety, it would end at Cathedral Rock, a distance of 16.5 miles roundtrip, or about 12.5 hours. On this day, however, our plan was to hike about a third of the distance ending a prominent saddle called Cardiac Gap. Click here to see a slideshow of images taken on this hike.
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Taking a break at Cardiac Gap before returning to the Sabino Canyon Center. — Image by kenne
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Taking A Wide-Angle Look After A Morning Rain In Sabino Canyon 9 comments
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Looking Up Sabino Canyon from Rattlesnake Canyon Trail Head
Sabino Canyon Riparian Area
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Sabino Canyon Riparian Area — Images by kenne
A chilly morning rain failed as the SCVN Trainees huddled under a ramada in the Desert Picnic area in Sabino Canyon. Our regular Monday morning class took place at the site of the kindergarten nature program. The canyon presented a canopy of dramatic cloud formations as the rain moved on through.
The above panoramic photos were created by merging 2-3 wide-angle images (taken using a Nikkor 12-24 lens) in Photoshop.
— kenne
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