More balloon pieces along the Canada del Oro Trail - terrible...

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Frankly I'm not sure where these were taken. Probably on the Butterfly Trail.

Photos from a trip up the Santa Catalina Mountains in 1980.

Kodachrome transparency copied with Nikon ES-1 and Olympus 35mm f3.5 macro lens. RAW file processed with Picasa.

1980-07b-33.ORF)

Mount Lemmon

Tucson

Mount Lemmon

Tucson

Photos take on a trip up Mount Lemmon in early summer 1980.

Kodachrome transparency copied with Nikon ES-1 and Olympus 35mm f3.5 macro lens. RAW file processed with Picasa.

(1980-06b-16.ORF)

A fungus rich environment. I checked climate records for 1981 and Tucson had over six inches of rain the month before, which might explain it.

Kodachrome transparency taken with an Olympus OM-1. Copied with a Nikon ES-1 on Olympus 35mm f3.5 macro lens/E-510. RAW file processed with Olympus Viewer 2.

(1981-08b-05)

This shrub has been abundant and conspicuous for the last few weeks along the roadsides of the General Hitchcock Highway in the upper Sonoran Desert zone and into the oak-juniper grassland. I believe this is Turpentine Bush; please leave me a comment if you think I've got the ID wrong! Molino Basin, Santa Catalina Mountains, Pima County, Arizona. October 24, 2015.

Summer 2019

The morning we arrived, there was snow all over the place. But it quickly melted, and by the time we left, there was hardly any snow to be seen.

Drove most of the way up to Mt Lemmon June 21, 2009 on a whim.

To the Steward Observatory

Windy Point Lonely Tree #4. Windy Point, Mount Lemmon, Tucson, Arizona, USA.

Mount Lemmon

Tucson, AZ

Mt. Lemmon, Arizona.

Jay and Jim's Tuscon AZ Honeymoon

Mount Lemmon, Catalina Mnts 5/10/2018

Meetup.com trip to Mt. Lemmon 6/29/13

At one of the scenic overlooks on the way up Mount Lemmon we encountered a group of hikers from the Canyon Ranch Resort getting ready to take a hike in one of the many trails on Mount Lemmons

Bug Springs Trail is a short hike half way up Mount Lemmon. Mount Lemmon is located north of Tucson, AZ.

Pipevine Swallowtail.

Mount Lemmon.

Pima county, Arizona.

8-6-09

Photo by: Ned Harrris

Santa Catalina Mountains above Tucson, AZ

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Photos from a hike on Mount Lemmon. We went past the old radar station (now the UA Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter) and through Lemmon Park, then looped back on the power line road.

Scanned Kodachrome transparency, adjusted with Picasa.

(1979-08d-05)

All the Tucson Mountains overlap together.

Lance and I did not expect so much water in the canyon - really amazing and there was still flowing water where we left the canyon.