Looking Down Through Pima Canyon, Sonoran Desert (February 9, 2015) — Image by kenne
The warm
morning sun
leaves us
as we hike into
the canyon shadows.
— kenne
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Male Shrub in Bloom (February 9, 2015)
Seeds from Last Year on Female Shrub — Images by kenne
The jojoba male plant blooms in late winter and the female plants ripen their acorn-shaped and sized seeds in summer. Click here for more information.
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Mountain Stream In Pima Canyon, Santa Catalina Mountains (February 9, 2015) — Image by kenne
In the Sonoran Desert mountains
the sound of spring is running water
with cheery birds providing the background vocals.
Hiking mountain canyons in the spring
requires rock hopping
across the many stream crossing.
By mid-day, butterflies and bees
share in nature’s annual awakening.
— kenne
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Ivyleaf Morning Glory On A Prickly Pear Cactus, Pima Canyon — Image by kenne
Desert hiking where
There’s glory in the morning
Climbing a cactus.
— kenne
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Queen Butterflies In Pima Canyon 5 comments
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Queen butterflies In Pima Canyon — Images by kenne
(Click on any of the images for larger view in a slideshow format.)
NATURE, POEM 7: THE BUTTERFLY’S DAY
From cocoon forth a butterfly
As lady from her door
Emerged — a summer afternoon —
Repairing everywhere,
Without design, that I could trace,
Except to stray abroad
On miscellaneous enterprise
The clovers understood.
Her pretty parasol was seen
Contracting in a field
Where men made hay, then struggling hard
With an opposing cloud,
Where parties, phantom as herself,
To Nowhere seemed to go
In purposeless circumference,
As ‘t were a tropic show.
And notwithstanding bee that worked,
And flower that zealous blew,
This audience of idleness
Disdained them, from the sky,
Till sundown crept, a steady tide,
And men that made the hay,
And afternoon, and butterfly,
Extinguished in its sea.
— Emily Dickinson
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“Shadows On Her Wings,” Queen Butterfly — Image by kenne
Shadows on her wings
Dancing in the morning sun
My queen for a day.
— kenne
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Morning Sunlight Creeps Into Pima Canyon — Image by kenne
Capturing The Moment
In capturing the moment
I am providing convincing evidenced
that I have experience
by being both in the
act of photographing
and the experience in the
moment of the photographing.
To step outside the moment
is to loosen the experience.
— kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Sunrise In Pima Canyon 5 comments
Sunrise In Pima Canyon — Image by kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Ready For The Wind 4 comments
“Ready For The Wind” — Image by kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Hepatic Tanager 3 comments
Hepatic Tanager — Image by Bill Kaufman
Fellow Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalist (SCVN), Bill Kaufman set out the other morning to photograph an Hepatic Tanager in the canyon’s riparian area. As luck would have it he was able to photograph this beauty singing in the morning sunshine.
While hiking Pima Canyon yesterday, Bill shared his photographing experience, later in the day emailing the above image.
Great image, Bill — photographing this sing bird is made difficult by its unsettled movement high is the trees. Thanks for sharing.
Thy duty, winged flame of spring, is but to love and fly and sing.
— from the poem “Nest” by James Russell Lowell
kenne
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Hiking Pima Canyon, October, 2012 — Images by kenne
The SCVN hiking group hiked Pima Canyon last week. This is a beautiful canyon in the Santa Catalina Mountains and provides for a moderate hike up to several dams. This time of year the conditions are very dry, even more so this year.
The trail head is in the western Catalina Foothills near Pusch Ridge. The canyon is a desert riparian habitat, which also makes it good for birdwatching.
There are several Hohokam grinding (mortar) holes located near the stream that probably flowed more freely hundreds of years ago when the Hohokam Indians were common to the Sonoran Desert. The Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists share information and show children grinding holes in their program, “Back To The Past.” The gallery of photos below contain some images of grinding holes — click on any of the thumbnails for a larger view of the Pima Canyon images.
kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Sun In The Canyon 10 comments
Pima Canyon In Tucson Arizona — Image by kenne
Sun in the canyon
Peering over the east ridge
Morning has arrived.
kenne
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Pima Canyon SCVN Hike, October 28, 2011– Images by kenne
These images are all panoramic photographs created by combining 2-5 images into one using Photoshop C5. The second image from the top and the last one above are the only images not in a panoramic format.
Pima Canyon is a popular canyon in the Santa Catalinas because it is narrow and offers a lot of diverse vegetation from desert cactus to larger trees in the creek’s riparian area — although, there’s currently no water in the canyon. This was my second hike in Pima Canyon and each time we have hiked to the “first dam.” Next time we hike the canyon, I hope to continue the hike up to the “second dam,” which is about 45-60 minutes on up the canyon.
kenne
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