I moved to Madera Highlands in Spring of in 2009, what sold me were views of the Santa Rita Mountains towering over the community. I finally made it backpacking in those magestic mountains. I have actually been to the summit the highest peak, Mount Wrightson but only on day hikes. Every time I […]
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Sunday 23 April 2017 was an amazing day. I took off with family to go into Tucson and visit the Air and Space Museum. As we headed north into Tucson I saw a relatively large cloud of what looked like dust. I thought it looked a bit strange but figured […]
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Every time I go in the back country I face a new challenge. It might be surviving the cold, thin air at altitude, or in this case fear of heights. Mark and I had been planning a back country trip for some time. We finally made it happen last weekend […]
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Jerry Plumley and I have been good friends ever since I started as a Real Estate Agent. He was a more senior agent who took me under his wing when I was learning the ropes. Around that time we started a tradition of visiting top fuel drag racing and […]
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The Biosphere North of Tucson has always been on my list of must see places. Surprisingly I’d not been there despite having lived in Tucson since 2009. Today my story changed. We took a trip up there with my parents and brother who are visiting for the holidays. We arrived around […]
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Those of you who moved back home for the summer are missing one of the best parts of life in Tucson. That’s the monsoon season. Summer monsoons are spectacular! Something everybody should experience in their lifetime. In a short period of time an insane amount of rain is dropped. The […]
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Back in 2013 I spotted my first Gila Monster. Original post and video below. I think he may have returned or at least one of his friends. I understand they can live up to 30 years! I am so excited to see one again. They are a “Nearly Endangered” speices […]
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I am pretty sure as a kid you would lay out on your back at night and look up at the stars. I know I sure did. I spent countless nights trying pearing up at the sky and wondering what shapes the stars revealed, if anybody else was up there, and […]
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I think I finally pulled it off. Last year I tried to capture a snowstorm on Mount Wrightson but it turned out terrible. This year I managed to get 3 days of timelapse as the storm blew over! The above time-lapse is a sequence of 3,120 still photographs I took […]
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