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Sabino Canyon

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Sabino Canyon · 2Y ago

Yellow thru the Year

Greetings from the Sonoran Desert!For Cactus Monday, Mellow Yellow Monday and Mosaic Monday.Here are yellow things found at Sabino Canyon through the year:click photo to enlargeThe pieces of the mosaic are not in chronological order but the key below is arranged by month with picture numbers in brac
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Sabino Canyon · 2Y ago

Clouds at Sunrise

A few mornings ago, the sky was cloudy as I walked in Sabino Canyon.Clouds were a welcome change from the clear skies usually seen in this area.It almost looked as if it could rain.The creek hasn't flowed since July. Even the tiny pools of stagnant water have dried up.
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Sabino Canyon · 2Y ago

Wordless Wednesday - Branching Out

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Sabino Canyon · 2Y ago

Coati - Camera Critter

Here are pictures of the coati we saw on our walk in Sabino Canyon on Monday. From a distance it looked like a monkey of some sort in the tree. The long tail is used for balancing, but it is non-prehensile.We did the best we could photographing the animal with the bright sun behind it. We watched
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Sabino Canyon · 2Y ago

October Walk

Chris and I went for a walk in the canyon yesterday morning as it had just rained the night before.Because of the rain, the accordion-like pleats of the saguaros had expanded, making the cacti look a little plumper than usual.The leaves of the cottonwood trees along the creek were just starting to t
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Sabino Canyon · 2Y ago

Thimble Peak

Thimble Peak (on the left) stands between Sabino Canyon and Bear Canyon in the Santa Catalina Mountains. I've noticed that viewed from the track, the space between Thimble Peak and Blackett's Ridge (to its right) echos the inverted shape of Thimble Peak, more or less, depending on where I stand.T
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Sabino Canyon · 2Y ago

September Walk

Chris and I went for a walk in the canyon yesterday morning, the first time in weeks. Here's some of what we found.It still feels like summer at the canyon. The barrel cacti just have a few blooms left.Ocotillo stems are covered with green leaves while the red blooms are long gone.Teddy bear chol
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Sabino Canyon · 2Y ago

Cactus Monday

“I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately...to front only the essential facts of life,and see if I could not learn what it had to teach...I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life...and not when I had come to die discover that I had not lived.”~Henry David ThoreauFor
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Sabino Canyon · 2Y ago

Nectar Lovers

These are some of the birds spotted at my backyard feeder. For many weeks the only hummers observed had red bills, probably broad-billed hummingbirds. The first one below has a metal band around his left leg.Lately we've seen hummers with dark bills, but I'm not sure what species they are.This one
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Sabino Canyon · 2Y ago

Cactus Monday - Shadows II

Happy Cactus Monday!This week I experimented with "catching" shadows of plants on paper. It was fun to see how tilting the paper would change the shape of the shadow and it was challenging to keep myself and the camera out of the picture.I cropped some of the pictures later:But for most of these I
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