Red Flame Skimmer at Sweetwater Wetlands — Image by kenne
Red flame in sunlight—
wing-flash skims the quiet pond;
ripples carry fire.
— kenne
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Red Flame Dragonfly 7 comments
Variegated Meadowhawk Dragonfly In Flight Leave a comment
Variegated Meadowhawk Dragonfly In Flight — Image by kenne
“Come fly with me, let’s fly, let’s fly awayIf you can use some exotic booze, there’s a bar in far BombayCome on and fly with me, let’s fly, let’s fly away”
— from Come fly with me by Frank Sinatra
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Blue Dasher Dragonfly Leave a comment
Blue Dasher Dragonfly — Image by kenne
“The beauteous dragonfly’s dancing
By the waves of the rivulet glancing;
She dances here, and she dances there,
The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair.”
— Heinrich Heine
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Two Abert’s Towhees In A Desert Willow 1 comment
Two Abert’s Towhees In A Desert Willow — Image by kenne
Abert’s towhee, native to a small range in southwestern North America, generally the lower Colorado River and Gila River watersheds, is nearly endemic to Arizona but also present in small parts of California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and Sonora in Mexico. The name of this bird commemorates the American ornithologist James William Abert (1820–1897). — Wikipedia
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Moon Over Sweetwater Leave a comment
Moon Over Sweetwater Wetlands Park, Tucson, Arizona — Image by kenne
A walk in the park
Audubon naturalists
Recording sighting
— kenne
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Flame Skimmer With A Clipped Wing 3 comments
Dragonfly (Flame Skimmer) at Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona (October 1, 2014) — Image by kenne
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Tucson’s Sweetwater Wetlands Leave a comment
Sweetwater Wetlands Park — Images by kenne
Tucson’s Sweetwater Wetlands is an artificial wetlands near the usually dry Santa Cruz river. The area is a part of a waste-water reclamation project developed in 1996. The park provides an urban wildlife habitat and outdoor classroom — a wildlife photographer’s paradise.
kenne
“Water, water, water….There is no shortage of water
in the desert but exactly the right amount ,
a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand,
insuring that wide free open,
generous spacing among plants and animals,
homes and towns and cities,
which makes the arid West so different
from any other part of the nation.
There is no lack of water here unless you try to
establish a city where no city should be.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
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