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Taken near Tucson.
View from the patio for the hotel looking towards Tucson.
Patio of the hotel.
Taken in the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
Taken in the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
Taken in the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
Taken in the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
Barn Owl ~ Hunting predominantly by hearing. Ears are not evenly placed on either side of head. Asymmetrical placement of ears aids. This photo was taken in Tucson, Arizona
Saguaros grow very slowly. In Tucson, it takes a saguaro about 10 years to grow 1 1/2 inches. In 30 years, it grows 2 feet. Many saguaros have nurse plants that protect them when they are growing. Saguaros develop arms when they are 50 to 100 years old. Some saguaros never grow arms at all; some have as many as 50 arms! A full-grown saguaro is 50 feet or more tall and weighs 6 to 7 tons when it if filled with water. It can live to be 200 years old. Photos was taken at the San Xavier Mission.
Mission San Xavier del Bac is situated in the Santa Cruz Valley nine miles south of Tucson, Arizona. Framed in the warm browns of the surrounding hills and the violet shadows of more distant mountains, it rises, brilliantly white from the desert floor of dusty green mesquite and sage. The imposing dome and lofty towers, the rounded parapets and graceful spires etched against the vivid blue complete a skyline with a graceful enchantment.
Saguaro looming over Tucson on Mt. Lemon
looking up from the lower levels of Mt. Lemon in Tucson, Arizona