Common Sneezeweed in the Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne
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I Walked The Mountain Trail Leave a comment
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Western Honey Bee On Chicory Leave a comment
Western Honey Bee On Chicory Wildflower — Image by kenne
Western honey bee
On chicory wildflower
Spring is everywhere.
— kenne
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Hiking The Bug Springs Trail 2 comments
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Slideshow of Monday Morning Milers Hiking The Bug Springs Trail (Elevation — 5,000 to 6,500 ft) — Images by kenne
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Aspen Colors On Mt. Lemmon 1 comment
Aspen Colors On Mt. Lemmon — Photo-Artistry by kenne
On top of Mt. Lemmon
the setting sun casts shadows
honoring this priceless moment
concealed in the colors,
sunk deep in the flesh.
— kenne
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Picturing Sabino — A Door To The Past Leave a comment
On the morning of April 4, 2023, the creator of the Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists organization,
David Wentworth Lazaroff gave a talk on his new book, Picturing Sabino.
Picturing Sabino represents three decades of work on the history of Sabino Canyon.
David became fascinated by Sabino Canyon while working there as an environmental education specialist from 1977 to 1986.
Picturing Sabino tells the story of the canyon’s transformation from a barely known oasis, miles from a small nineteenth-century town, into an immensely popular recreation area on the edge of a modern metropolis. Covering a century of change, from 1885 to 1985,
this work rejoices in the canyon’s natural beauty and also relates the ups and downs of its protection and enjoyment.
Picturing Sabino — Video by kenne
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Santa Catalina Paintbrush Wildflowers Leave a comment
Santa Catalina Paintbrush Wildflowers — HDR Image by kenne
“So I ran, fearing not where I’d go
When a flower grows wild
It can always survive
Wildflowers don’t care where they grow.”
— Dolly Parton
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Santa Catalina Mountains Panorama: Western View Leave a comment
Santa Catalina Mountains Panorama: Western View from Wasson Peak– Image by kenne
“The day warmed and on the margins of a steep ravine splitting the side of the mesa I found dry rocks to scramble up. I liked that about the desert.
Morning snow and afternoon warmth, the winter equivalent of a spring freshet, but for which I had no word. In some ways, words were superfluous.
They didn’t help—no words came to mind—as I pulled on a loose boulder and leaped awkwardly out of the way of its crashing descent,
its delicate angle of repose inadvertently re-reposed. All the rocks in this ravine were similarly precarious, and I continued with greater care
as the ravine steepened near the top of the mesa. I had lost sight of the ravens, and they of me. I had not spotted a
bighorn sheep the entire day. I was pleased the boulder did not take me with it.”
— from 1/21/21 by David Jenkins
(Anthropologist David Jenkins is the author of Nature and Bureaucracy: The Wildness of Managed Landscapes (Routledge 2022). He has taught at MIT and Bates College and worked in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. For the last dozen years, he has worked in public lands management, where he tries to do some good for the planet.
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Spring In The Santa Catalina Mountains Leave a comment
Spring In The Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne
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Upper Sabino Canyon in the Santa Catalina Mountains, as Seen from Blackett’s Ridge — Image by kenne
For ten years, I have hiked many trails
In these Santa Catalina Mountains.
Stopping from time to time to watch things
As nature goes about its many changes.
White clouds gather above canyons and peaks.
The blue sky makes a good quilt as
The Sabino Canyon trail goes on and on.
— kenne
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Blackett’s Ridge Trail Leave a comment
Hiking Blackett’s Ridge — Image by kenne
We were hiking on Blackett’s Ridge
When the view called me over
For a moment of meditation —
The existence of a beautiful view
Is to take time to stop.
— kenne
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Poppies Are Popping Leave a comment
Poppies are Popping In The Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne
I dream of a quiet man
who explains nothing and defends
nothing, but only knows
where the rarest wildflowers
are blooming, and who goes,
and finds that he is smiling
not by his own will.
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Catalina Mountains Snow At The Lower Elevations Leave a comment
Catalina Mountains Snow At The Lower Elevations — Image by kenne
It’s mid-morning, and the snow we received here in Tanuri Ridge has melted.
Also, the clouds covering the Santa Catalina Mountains have moved on.
— kenne
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Sabino Canyon Morning, February 28, 2023 Leave a comment
Sabino Canyon Morning, February 28, 2023 — HDR Image by kenne
A morning walk in the desert
can be so invigorating
to the body
and the soul —
try it sometime.
— kenne
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Caught On The Run Leave a comment
Caught On the Run in Sabino Canyon — Image by kenne
First, there was the clicking,
A sound caused by bill rattling.
Quickly, he had my attention
When I saw him on the run
Through the dry desert grass.
— kenne
Becoming is Superior to Being 