South Mountain, Phoenix, AZ

"Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape." - Mary Richards

Here are two more panoramics from Arizona. They were both taken at South Mountain in Phoenix, Arizona. The above image was taken from the top of the ridge line shown below. This was one of my favorite hikes while I was in Arizona, and there were hardly any other people there.

This image was taken from the trail head.

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Four Peaks

"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books." - John Lubbock

I have finally started the process of working on some of panoramics from Arizona. This is the first one. At the place I was staying in Arizona, I could walk into the street in front of the house and look north down the street and see mountains. One morning I woke up and checked the mail, looked north, and saw the mountains were capped with snow, even though it was 85 degrees down in the East Valley that day. So, I took a drive up I-87, and took the Four Peaks pull off to catch this shot of the low hanging snow-filled clouds over Four Peaks and other surrounding mountains.

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