Entries Tagged as 'Arizona photography'

Lincoln, Webber and the Spirituality of Sunset

July 31st, 2019 · No Comments

The Spirituality of Sunsetby Jane St. Clair As a young man, Abraham Lincoln took to walking around cemeteries at twilight. Now this sounds morbid to us, but back then, it was a very sexy thing to do. When you looked at a sunset in a vast horizon as you walked in a graveyard at twilight, […]

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Oracle State Park: Walking in Wilderness

February 1st, 2019 · No Comments

The Kannally family were Midwesterners who bought ranching country in Oracle, Arizona

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Kitt Peak, Home of A Beautiful and Benign Science

March 31st, 2017 · No Comments

This beautiful mountain has a great serenity, grace and peace about it, as if it were a natural cathedral. The Tohono O’odham nation, upon whose land Kitt Peak sits, recognize it as the holy place that it is –for it is where their elder brother deity resides. Their creator deity lives on nearby Baboquivari Peak, the center of their cosmology

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Tags: Arizona · Arizona photography · Tucson Tourism

Ramsey Canyon: A Walk In the High Country

August 31st, 2016 · No Comments

All of a sudden the Ramsey Canyon forest looks foreboding! The squirrel just stares at me. He knows the forest is playing tricks on my mind, and he also knows I stepped on the snake first.

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Tags: Arizona photography · Jane St. Clair · nature essay

Dappled Things in Their Pied Beauty

March 31st, 2016 · No Comments

Then as I thought about Hopkins’ words and kept looking around me, I understood what he meant. Gerald Manley Hopkins meant that speckled things or dappled things and striped things or brinded things are all around you, and they are beautiful in their own way.

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Sometimes I dream I am in Sedona Again …

February 2nd, 2016 · No Comments

I have been to Sedona many times .. And once I even went there in a dark gray rainstorm. At first I felt disappointed until I went out walking and I could see that…. even without its colors, Sedona is just as magical and just as enchanted, but in a different way.

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Tags: Arizona · Arizona photography · Jane St. Clair · Sedona

A Godful Cosmic Wildness: The Grand Canyon

September 3rd, 2015 · No Comments

The Grand Canyon seems like a gigantic statement for even Nature to make all in one mighty stone work. Wildness so Godful, cosmic, primeval, bestows a new sense of earth’s beauty and size…

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Tags: Arizona · Arizona photography · Jane St. Clair · National Parks · nature essay

This is Weird Arizona by Jane St. Clair

June 5th, 2015 · No Comments

Thunderheads are beautiful. It can be dry at your house and raining across the street. And it’s also true in Weird Arizona that we have ostrich races, mystery castles, Civil War Battle Reenactments and cars on sticks.

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Happy Trails to You! At Old Tucson Studios

May 9th, 2015 · No Comments

As you walk around Old Tucson, you get deja vue because you have indeed seen this landscape and these buildings all before – in productions like Tombstone, Hombre, Bonanza, Gunfight at OK Corral, and many more.

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Tags: Arizona · Arizona photography · Jane St. Clair · Old Tucson · Tucson · Tucson Tourism · Uncategorized

Butterflies For A Zen Day

April 9th, 2015 · No Comments

I love the way butterflies slit themselves up into little black lines and then flash! –Open up those beautiful wide wings! One poet compared their wings to parasols opening,

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