Category Archives: Maricopa County

Shadow Shot Sunday 2: Autumn’s Arrival

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A cottonwood leaf in Maricopa County, Arizona announces autumn’s arrival.
 

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Quest

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A cottonwood leaf in Maricopa County, Arizona announces autumn’s arrival.
 


First quest of autumn—
I try to read messages
written in the leaves.

 
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Fly

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Mountains dominate portions of the Sonoran Desert in Maricopa County, Arizona.
 


Fly on the mountain,
even from such a distance,
you disturb my peace!

 
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Shadow Shot Sunday 2: Wash

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Shadows, not water, run through a sandy wash in Maricopa County, Arizona.
 

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Greening

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An ocotillo sports new green leaves after recent monsoons in the Sonoran Desert, Maricopa County, Southern Arizona.
 


In the midday heat
a greening ocotillo
offers little shade.

 
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Fly

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Mountains dominate portions of the Sonoran Desert, Maricopa County, Arizona.
 


What if the mountain
were to fly south without you,
blackbird on the wing?

 
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Broken

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A dead saguaro cactus, Sonoran Desert, Maricopa County, Southern Arizona.
 


Broken saguaro,
how long will you keep standing
before I break too?

 
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Faraway

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In the foreground, an ironwood tree, Sonoran Desert, Maricopa County, Arizona
 


wilderness morning—
how the faraway mountains
tug at the crow’s wings

 
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Evening

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A saguaro cactus, Sonoran Desert, Maricopa County, Southern Arizona
 


Wilderness evening—
what key unlocks the secrets
hidden in the clouds?

 
Haiku and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
 
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Twilight

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Distant mountain range at day’s end, Maricopa County, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
 


Wilderness twilight—
who will lock the clouds in place
to shroud the full moon?

 
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