some recent reflections...literal, that is

Cooler afternoons have finally arrived in southern Arizona; time for weekday after-work runs in Sabino Canyon again...

...and as I often take my iPhone with me, here are some photos, including this one that was published in the Tucson newspaper a couple of weeks ago:

The riparian canyon oasis is one of my favorite spots anywhere in Arizona; what's come to be 'home' just wouldn't be home without it...

...but the waters are dwindling. I took the above scene a few weeks ago, but the same spot looks like this now:

While there are still areas of flowing water, large stretches of the creek have dried up;

come on winter rains, come on...

But there are still plenty of opportunities for reflection:

Living in the desert, reflective scenes have become irresistible...

Days getting shorter, waters drying up...

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The other day, while running in the canyon, I saw this guy:

Alas, smooshed on the road, but still quite a sight--was as long as my hand.

It's a scolopendra, a giant desert centipede.

They can eat rodents and snakes.

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And my post-pneumonia lungs are, at last, approaching their pre-pneumonia state;

I'm finally able to run the entire length of the canyon again...

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We had to go out of town at the beginning of the month,

trekking across the desert to California...

here's a stretch of the Sonoran desert west of Phoenix:

Vast skies, but oh so dry.

How good it is to live near Sabino Canyon,

near water, as meager as it may seem...

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Recently, the good folks over at Perspective Correct

published a post...
...with me as their 'featured photographer!'
Honored; thank you!

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And one last thing--
some origami that a student of mine made:

HANDS! --from ONE sheet of PAPER!
I was duly impressed.