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Category Archives: Wildflowers

Photo of the day, June 9, 2013

I had hoped to try and climb the mountain twice today and as such, I was on the trail earlier than normal, at 6:50am to be exact.  Since the mountain is closing due to the fire danger, one of the early victims has been the wildflowers, either wilted shortly after blossom or not showing up […]

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The Bug was for Free – Photo of the day, June 8, 2013

There I was, working on the macro settings of my camera and since I use manual focus, I was moving the camera every so slightly in and out to try and get the Mountain Parsley into focus. And along came a ??? I’ve got no clue just exactly what this is, but it sure has […]

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Photos of the day, May 27, 2013, La Luz Trail

The trifecta of climbs is complete.  Saturday chimney canyon, Sunday TWA, and Monday La Luz. We start with a new to me, a flowering cactus which I believe to be a king cup cactus – which is in the variety known as the hedgehog cactus.  The needles are much farther apart on this than the […]

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Photos of the day, Sunday, May 26, 2013 – Domingo Baca Hike

Day two of my attempt to have a 3 climb weekend I wandered through the TWA canyon to the summit.  Some of the flowers are shown here. Yellow Salsify Wild Rose Finally, my third attempt to photograph this flower is successful.  In the TWA canyon (Domingo Baca) I found this one solitary example of Starry […]

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Photos for the day, Saturday April 27, 2013

The mountain is almost devoid of bright color, especially since we have had little snow and no rain this spring. The cactus are still the bright spots on the lower mountain. Tucked away under a larger Cholla Cactus, the hedgehog lives, in and out of the sun.

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Photos of the day and Quote for the day, Sunday, April 21, 2013

On my climb today I found the first wildflowers of the season. Now, perhaps the Scarlet Hedgehog Cactus is not considered a wildflower, but in my book, it counts, and this is my book. This particular cactus was just next to another that was about to burst into twenty to thirty blooms, which I hope […]

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Photos of the day, March 29, 2013

It’s wildflower season in Arizona and despite the fact that hey have not had much rain, the road to Globe did not disappoint. My daughter had a few  hours left to her own devices while she was “hiding” from her mother in order to surprise her at her birthday dinner in the evening.  Daughter and […]

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Photo of the day 10.6.2012

Hiked the trails again this weekend and at the upper reaches of the LaLuz trail there were one or two clumps of flowers clinging to life on the side of the mountain.

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Photos of the day, Saturday July 14,2012

Today, its about the bugs. Those wings look like plastic. And this guy – I guess I’ll have to change my strategy to take bug photos, especially with larger bugs.  The macro mode on my camera will focus down to one inch, and as you can see, parts of the bee are in focus, and […]

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Photo of the day – 7.8.2012

Close up of part of a Spreading Fleabane, member of the Aster Family. Story is over at the writing blog.

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