Photo of the day

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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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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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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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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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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