Congratulations to the University of Arizona Wildcat baseball team for beating the two-time defending champions South Carolina Gamecocks to capture the 2012 College World Series (CWS) title.
Arizona did not lose a game in the NCAA Tournament, and won its last 11 games and 18 of its last 20 in 2012, a great time of the year to get hot. They played flawlessly! This NCAA baseball crown is the Wildcats 4th national title (also 1976, 1980 and 1986).
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Sunday, June 24, 2012
100 Years, 100 Ranchers
Scott Baxter traveled across Arizona photographing ranching families that have been around since the state's birth. This mythos of the American West serves as inspiration for a new centennial exhibit at the Tucson Museum of Art entitled "100 Years 100 Ranchers: Photographs by Scott Baxter."
Source: Arizona Illustrated: Photographer Strives to Capture Vanishing Culture
Source: Arizona Illustrated: Photographer Strives to Capture Vanishing Culture
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Arizona: At Least We're Not Mexico
Someone behind the political scenes recently leaked to me this alleged Republican campaign theme being considered for the upcoming state elections - "Arizona: At Least We're Not Mexico"
An unknown Democrat argued that, perhaps politically, we are exactly the same. Any thoughts?
Source: Nuestro México del Futuro
An unknown Democrat argued that, perhaps politically, we are exactly the same. Any thoughts?
Source: Nuestro México del Futuro
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Kartchner Caverns State Park
Are you on vacation or got a day off from work and are looking for something cool to do?
Experience a spectacular limestone cavern found in Southeastern Arizona that boasts world-class features. Located about 10 miles south of Benson, AZ, this "live" cave known as Kartchner Caverns, discovered in 1974, is host to a wide variety of unique minerals and formations.
A great place to visit on a hot and dry Arizona Summer day, the cave has an average temperature of 72° Fahrenheit (22° Celsius) and 99% humidity year-round. Water percolates from the surfaces and calcite formations (speleothems) continue to grow, including stalactites dripping down like icicles and giant stalagmites reaching up from the ground.
Tour guides will unveil this fascinating underground landscape during a memorable 1½ hour tour.
Source: Arizona State Parks
Experience a spectacular limestone cavern found in Southeastern Arizona that boasts world-class features. Located about 10 miles south of Benson, AZ, this "live" cave known as Kartchner Caverns, discovered in 1974, is host to a wide variety of unique minerals and formations.
A great place to visit on a hot and dry Arizona Summer day, the cave has an average temperature of 72° Fahrenheit (22° Celsius) and 99% humidity year-round. Water percolates from the surfaces and calcite formations (speleothems) continue to grow, including stalactites dripping down like icicles and giant stalagmites reaching up from the ground.
Tour guides will unveil this fascinating underground landscape during a memorable 1½ hour tour.
Source: Arizona State Parks
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Monument Valley
Found on the Navajo Indian reservation located on the Arizona/Utah border, you are experiencing one of the most majestic - and most photographed - points on earth, Monument Valley.
This great valley boasts sandstone masterpieces that tower at heights of 400 to 1,000 feet. Framed by scenic clouds casting shadows that graciously roam the desert floor. The angle of the sun accents these graceful formations, providing scenery that is simply spellbinding.
The landscape overwhelms, not just by its beauty but also by its size. The fragile pinnacles of rock are surrounded by miles of mesas and buttes, shrubs, trees and windblown sand, all comprising the magnificent colors of the valley.
All of this harmoniously combines to make Monument Valley a truly wondrous experience.
Monument Valley from Ken Sklute on Vimeo.
This great valley boasts sandstone masterpieces that tower at heights of 400 to 1,000 feet. Framed by scenic clouds casting shadows that graciously roam the desert floor. The angle of the sun accents these graceful formations, providing scenery that is simply spellbinding.
The landscape overwhelms, not just by its beauty but also by its size. The fragile pinnacles of rock are surrounded by miles of mesas and buttes, shrubs, trees and windblown sand, all comprising the magnificent colors of the valley.
All of this harmoniously combines to make Monument Valley a truly wondrous experience.
Monument Valley from Ken Sklute on Vimeo.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Phoenix College Lady Bears
Who's some of the best women softball players you've probably never heard of? That would be the Phoenix College Lady Bears who are consistently regarded as some of the best women softball players in the country.
Phoenix College beat No.1-ranked and defending national champion LSU-Eunice twice on Saturday in Clinton, MS, capturing its ninth National Junior College Athletic Association Division II Softball World Series championship in school history, and it's eighth under the direction of current head coach Heinz Mueller. Congratulations on both your individual and team accomplishments ladies!
Phoenix College beat No.1-ranked and defending national champion LSU-Eunice twice on Saturday in Clinton, MS, capturing its ninth National Junior College Athletic Association Division II Softball World Series championship in school history, and it's eighth under the direction of current head coach Heinz Mueller. Congratulations on both your individual and team accomplishments ladies!
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