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Kitt Peak — Looking To The Stars   Leave a comment

Wassen Peak (1 of 1)-6 II blog

Wassen Peak (1 of 1)-7 blogView of Kitt Peak from Gould Hill Mine Trail In the Tucson Mountains. — Images by kenne

The Kitt Peak National Observatory is a United States astronomical observatory located on Kitt Peak of the Quinlan Mountains in the Arizona-Sonoran Desert on the Tohono O’odham Nation, 55 miles west-southwest of Tucson, Arizona.

Posted March 17, 2019 by kenneturner in Information, Photography

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Old Pueblo On A Cloudy Day   2 comments

Tucson (1 of 1)-2 blogView from Guthrie Peak Trail, Catalina Highway to the Right, Down Through Sycamore Canyon, Thumble Peak, Blackett’s Ridge, Tucson,
The Tucson Mountains with The Quinlan Mountains on the Tohono O’odham Nation In The Distance.
— Image by kenne

Tall trees stand behind
Scrubs cover the mountainside
Through which a road runs.

Rocky peaks reach up
Form a desert silhouette
Above the basin.

Clouds move slowly by
Cover parallel ranges
Hugging Old Pueblo.

— kenne

Posted April 26, 2014 by kenneturner in Information, Photography, Poetry

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