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Trail To Maiden Pools Panorama Leave a comment

Trail To Maiden Pools — Panorama by kenne

Chaste goddess, well indeed thou knowest that I

Desire to be a virgin all my life,

Nor ever wish to be man’s love or wife.

I am, thou know’st, yet of thy company,

A virgin, who loves the hunt and venery,

And to go rambling in the greenwood wild,

And not to be a wife and be with child.

— From The Canterbury Tales

Posted February 12, 2020 by kenneturner in Information, Panorama, Poetry, Santa Catalina Mountains

Tagged with goddess, Maiden Pools, Santa Catalina Mountains, The Canterbury Tales

Capturing The Moment — Mexican Vervain Leave a comment

Mexican Vervain (Ventana Canyon to Maiden Pools Hike, February 26, 2016) — Images by kenne
(Click on any of the images to see larger view in a slideshow format.)

Only Earth. Earth.
Earth for trembling tablecloths,
for a cloud’s vicious eyeball,
for recent wounds and dampened thoughts.
Earth for everything the flees from earth.

— from Earth and Moon by Federico Garcia Lorca

Posted February 28, 2016 by kenneturner in Capturing the Moment, Catalina Foothills, Guided Hikes, Hiking, Information, Naturalists, Photography, Santa Catalina Mountains, SCVN Friday Hikes, Tucson Arizona

Tagged with Maiden Pools, Mexican Vervain, Santa Catalina Mountains, SCVN Friday Hikes, Ventana Canyon

Coral Bean Legume Pods 1 comment

Bean pods (1 of 1) blog Coral Bean (Erythrina herbacea) Legume Pods Image by kenne

All parts of the coral bean plant are poisonous, but the red beans, which is how the plant gets its name, are by far the most highly toxic. This plant contains Erythrina alkaloids, which include the curare-like beta-erythroidine. This plant is common to many of the mountain foothills surrounding Tucson. These pods were photographed in the Maiden Pools area of Ventana Canyon, February 20, 2015.

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