Snow On Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne
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“Winter, a lingering season,
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A view of the Tucson basin from near Windy Point Vista with thimble peak in the center-right. — Image by kenne
March by march I puzzled through ’em,
turning flanks and dodging shoulders,
hurried on in hope of water,
headed back for lack of grass;
till I camped above the tree-line —
drifted snow and naked boulders —
felt free air astir to windward —
knew I’d stumbled on the Pass.
— from The Explorer by Rudyard Kipling
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Snow On The Mountain — Image by kenne
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Men ask the way to Cold Mountain
Cold Mountain: there’s no through trail.
In summer, ice doesn’t melt
The rising sun blurs in swirling fog.
How did I make it?
My heart’s not the same as ypurs.
If your heart was like mine
You’d get it and be right here.
— from Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems by Gary Snyder
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Clouds Breakup After Snow On The Mountains — Image by kenne
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that
within me there lay an invincible summer.
— Albert Camus
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Catalina Front Ridge In Tucson (January 27, 2021) — Image by kenne
Got a dusting of snow on the south ridge, with over 12 inches at the higher elevation.
Mt. Lemmon and other higher elevations are blocked in this view
from our patio in Tanuri Ridge.
— kenne
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Snow In the Santa Catalina Mountains — Images by kenne
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Cold Mountain has many hidden wonders,
People who climb here are always getting scared.
When the moon shines, water sparkles clear
When the wind blows, grass swishes and rattles.
On the bare plum, flowers of snow
On the dead stump, leaves of mist.
At the touch of rain it all turns fresh and live
At the wrong season you can’t ford the creeks.
— Gary Snyder from the Cold Mountain Poems
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Snow On Mountain — Image by kenne
In the mountain’s it’s cold
Always been cold, not just this year.
Jagged scarps forever snowed in
Woods in the dark ravines spitting mist.
Grass is still sprouting at the end of June,
Leaves begin to fall in early August.
And here am I, high on mountains,
Peering and peering, but I can’t even see the sky.
— Gary Snyder
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Snow On The Mountain Hoodoos (Santa Catalina Mountains) — Image by kenne
Hoodoos.
Distant and lonely.
Wearing snows caps
given to them, a gift
from father winter
an infinity of whiteheads.
The sun softens the snow
water runs down cracks.
The magnificent junipers
white branches dripping.
Hoodoos.
Distant and lonely.
— kenne
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Three Ravens Of Christmas — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Ravens high on a snow-covered tree
Carrying on a winter conversation
Shaking snow on passersby.
What fun for them and those watching
Sharing the spirit of a new-fallen snow
Passing clouds and a nipping wind
Add mystery to a wintery scene.
— kenne
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One of the Ski Slopes On Mt. Lemmon — Panorama by kenne
Maybe snow tomorrow!
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As the clouds lifted above the foothills this morning, signs of less snow at the lower elevations appeared. — Image by kenne
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Yesterday we had an inch of rain with the temperature staying in the low forties in the Catalina Foothills allowing snow to accumulate as low as 3,500 feet.Mt. Lemmon probably had two feet or more of snow.
This morning clouds cover the Catalinas, but late yesterday as the clouds began to lift I was able to capture a few images. Isolated storms are forecasted for today with additional snow above 7,000 feet.
kenne
(Click on any of the images to see larger view in a slideshow format.)
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Capturing The Moment –“Who Includes Diversity, and is Nature . . .” 3 comments
Sabino Canyon with Fog in the Valley and Snow on Mt. Lemmon (12/12/07) —
This image by naturalist Phil Bentley captures the essence of Walt Whitman’s poem,”Kosmos”.
Kosmos
Who includes diversity and is Nature,
Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the great charity of the earth and the equilibrium also,
Who has not look’d forth from the windows the eyes for nothing, or whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing,
Who contains believers and disbelievers, who is the most majestic lover,
Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism, spiritualism, and of the æsthetic or intellectual,
Who having consider’d the body finds all its organs and parts good,
Who, out of the theory of the earth and of his or her body understands by subtle analogies all other theories,
The theory of a city, a poem, and of the large politics of these States;
Who believes not only in our globe with its sun and moon, but in other globes with their suns and moons,
Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,
The past, the future, dwelling there, like space, inseparable together.
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Sabino Canyon, December 14, 2011 — Image by kenne
It’s August in southern Arizona, hot, dry desert temperatures are the norm, which is why we hike the cool trails in the mountains. It is this contrast that captures the beauty of the Sonoran desert and the Santa Catalina mountains.
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Capturing The Moment — First Snow In The Santa Catalina Mountains 7 comments
First Snow In The Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne
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