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Mexican Jays love peanuts. this Jay first landed on this broken limb and spotted something inside. He quickly grabbed a peanut and took off.

 

Mexican Jays are found in the pine-oak canyons of the South Western Mountains, USA. These photos were taken on Mount Lemmon in Tucson, AZ.

A group of saguaro cacti in the clouds on the slopes of Mount Lemmon in the Santa Catalina Mountains. Most of the Santa Catalinas is within the Coronado National Forest on the northern edge of Tucson AZ.

 

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a Red-tailed Hawk is on a tall snag alongside the Meadow Trail on top of Mount Lemmon overlooking the Tucson Valley

As I was walking along the trail atop Mt Lemmon in the Santa Catalina Mountains, the ferns look dried up and dead. But look closer! They are still beautiful, but in a completely different way. Enlarging the photo brings out the full beauty.

Profiles of the ranges of the Santa Catalinas from along the Catalina Highway that goes from Tucson up to the summit of Mt. Lemmon (9300 feet and change).

An Arizona sycamore growing along a creek in a canyon at mile marker 10 on the Catalina Highway that climbs the Santa Catalina mountains to the top of Mount Lemmon. Shot in digital infrared.

Mount Lemmon is close to Tucson, Arizona. It is one of Arzona's "sky islands" where the climate is very different from the desert at lower altitudes.

My coworkers and I went to Mount Lemmon today after it snows yesterday. We managed to get up to the very top and walk through some of the forest!

Coming in for a drink [Broad tailed hummingbird]

Sunset from Windy Point Vista on Mount Lemmon, AZ

Catalina-Rincon metamorphic core complex, Arizona

Mount Lemmon, with a summit elevation of 9,159 feet (2,792 m, is the highest point in the Santa Catalina Mountains. It is located in the Coronado National Forest north of Tucson, Arizona, United States. Mount Lemmon was named for botanist Sara Plummer Lemmon, who trekked to the top of the mountain with her husband and E. O. Stratton, a local rancher, by horse and foot in 1881. Mount Lemmon is also known as Babad Do'ag, or Frog Mountain to the Tohono O'odham.

Female and Male Broad-tailed hummingbirds, I captured these whilst up the stunning Mount Lemmon, it has a summit elevation of 9,159 feet, is the highest point in the Santa Catalina Mountains, and is in SouthEast Arizona.

  

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Climbing Mt. Lemmon, the hard way.

Wilderness of Rocks - Santa Catalina Range

Coronado National Forest, Arizona

 

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I was so excited to finally come across this beetle again on Mt Lemmon. I had briefly seen one years ago along the Green Mountain Trail but it flew away before I had a chance to capture an image. Supposedly they can right themselves with a click. I didn't try to make that happen but it sure would be interesting to see.

I joined Ned and the gang on the final summer Mount Lemmon hike on August 26 2015. We hiked the loop formed by the Mt. Lemmon Trail and the Meadow Trail (formerly the Power Line Road and the Lemmon Park Trail) at the top of the mountain.

RAW file processed with Olympus Viewer 3.

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Taking the high ground [Phainopepla]

I've decided to start a 52 weeks project. I did a 365 project a couple years ago and although I didn't produce very many great images, I feel like I was at my most creative that time. So I'm doing a 52 week to get my mind working again.

 

This photo was lit only by moonlight. No flashes or lamps.

 

I set my camera to take a long exposure and I had my girlfriend reflect moonlight into my face. I posed and I held as still as I could until the shutter opened and closed.

A tree growing out of a crack between two boulders on the slopes of Molino Canyon in the Coronado National Forest, at Tucson, Arizona. Digital infrared photo made with a modified Canon D60.

a Black-throated Gray Warbler on a rock in a stream bed

Mt Lemmon Hwy is leands up to the top of Mount Lemmon which is just outside of Tucson, Arizona. You start off at about 2,557 ft surrounded by saguaro cactus and mesquite trees and climb as high as 8,198 ft to pine tree vegetation and cool air. It a little over 23 mile drive up the mountain with a number of lookout points like this one where you can stop and photograph or just enjoy the wonderful view.

 

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Nighttime shot of a lightning started fire (one week ago) that has reignited. This is the second time.

RAW file processed with Olympus Viewer 3.

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Coronado National Forest

A cottonwood with early autumn foliage (November) and a swing at the Gordon Hirabayashi site in the Santa Catalina Mountains of the Coronado National Forest.

At just over 9000 feet, the peaks of the Santa Catalina Mountains offer unexpected alpine scenery in the middle of the southern Arizona desert...

The "eyes" on aspen trees in the Catalina Mountains. These are the result of lower branches falling off as the tree grows tall, leaving a 'scar' on the trunk

An American Robin on rocks by a waterhole in the Catalina Mountains of southern Arizona

In an open area at the top of Mount Lemmon (9,159'), large clumps of these large flowers were blooming here and there. This shot holds up nicely, if you enlarge it.

SOMEONE put the manual camera settings to an 1.6 second shutter speed.

On Mt. Lemmon, Santa Catalina Mountains,above the desert, just north of Tucson, AZ

Yes, I have to thank Duncan Smith for the wonderful word of gloaming. Somehow I never noticed the word before.

 

Sunset during a small rainstorm (and much lightning) near Oracle, as seen from Mount Lemmon, Tucson, Arizona.

 

Much better large.

 

No HDR.

A Syrphid Fly, or Hover Fly, along the Meadow Trail at the top of Mount Lemmon

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