Archive for the ‘Santa Catalina Mountains’ Tag
Riding The Arizona Trail On Horseback in Sycamore Canyon — Photo-Artistry by kenne
The Canyon from Horseback
The young don’t know enough
About being young
They squander youth
And never know ’til later.
Any lad of twelve will testify
An eight-year-old can’t even qualify
To be a child
At eighteen our own ignorance
At fifteen is finally written
In language we comprehend:
We know the score
Reality’s the icing on the cake
Of youthful fantasies;
When the young grow old
They know a lot
About being young
But almost nothing
About being old.
— Jack Purcell from Poems of the New Old West
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SCVN Friday Hikes In The Santa Catalina Mountains To Resume This Summer — Image from 2017
The last Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalist (SCVN) hike was March 2020. The National Forest Service has authorized the SCVN to begin Friday Hikes this June on Mt. Lemmon. The Forest Service will require all volunteers to wear masks at all times while volunteering. The groups will be smaller and maintain social distancing.
— kenne
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Spring In The Sonoran Desert — Image by kenne
The Creosote bush is a plant of extremes: it is a widely used medicinal plant; it is the most drought tolerant
perennial in North America, and it may be the oldest living plant.
Creosote (Larrea tridentata), also known as greasewood, is the most common shrub in three of the four north American deserts.
It is too cold in the Great Basin Desert of Nevada, but it thrives in the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan deserts.
Creosote is an evergreen shrub, commonly up to six feet tall or taller, that has tiny green leaves, yellow flowers,
and grey-fuzzy fruit. It flowers several times a year depending on rainfall. — Source: Arizona Daily Independent
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Ravens Gathering On The Ridge — Image by kenne
Ravens on the ridge
Gather for the funeral
Death is without end.
— kenne
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New Mexico Groundsel — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Spring
Spring is proof
that we were right to hope
even in the darkness.
— Samantha Reynolds
(NY Times readers were invited to share an original poem
of about 15 words on the theme of renewal. This was on of them.)
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Thistles in Molino Basin — Image by kenne
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A Grassy Meadow Known as Thimble Flat (Thimble Peak On the Left) — Image by kenne
Thimble Flat
We gathered early one November morning,
now we were going to turn words into action
by hiking six miles to climb Thimble Peak.
Starting at the Gordon Hirabayashi Campground,
we hiked the Sycamore Canyon trail to the
Bear Canyon trail, then leaving the trail at a flat
grassy meadow called Thimble Flat to traverse
around a deep gulley, making our way through rocks
and brush to the base of Thimble Peak, where we paused
to determine the best way to climb this pinnacle on a
mountain ridge, overlooking Tucson known as Thimble Peak.
— kenne
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Spring Wildflowers in the Sonoran Desert — Image by kenne
A very dry spring
Some wildflowers beat the odds
Flaunting the experts.
— kenne
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Morning In The Canyon (Pima Canyon) — Image by kenne
Daylight comes earlier
with each passing day
I dress in translucent light
as the fading shadows
of night slowly move on.
I will leave soon to hike
in a nearby canyon
still, I pause taking time
to read poetry before leaving
preparing my thoughts
to be with nature.
— kenne
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Lupine In The Desert — Photo-Artistry by kenne
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Mariposa Lily — Image by kenne
I cherish the solitude
of walking alone in nature —
no feelings of loneness
where everything around
me is alive and alert
to my presence
a spirit of closeness
and unity serving
in ecstatic integration.
— kenne
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Goodding Verbena — Image by kenne
It’s amazing what a little rain can do in the desert.
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Oral Valley/ Tucson Basin Panorama by kenne
This panorama was created from three images taken from Wasson Peak, atop the Tucson Mountains March 13, 2015.
The Tortolita Mountains are to the left, Santa Catalina Mountains in the middle,
and the Rincon Mountain off to the right.
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Tucson received some snow over night (March 13, 2021) — Images by kenne
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Desert Rosemallow — Image by kenne
As I looked beyond
the flowers in the canyon
curvature of the
desert basin begins,
rolling across dried river beds
to the west where
the sun sets each day
beyond the Tucson Mountains
starting a new day
somewhere in the east.
— kenne
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