A solar-powered luminaria- Get the Flash Player to see this content. The earth hangs suspended on a wall next to the Music Hall Plaza in Tucson, Arizona. ⇓ The words “earth, earth, earth” run along the equator. ⇓ At night, the letters light up in blue, using the day’s collected solar power. ⇓ One word,...
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In collaboration with and under the auspices of: The Rillito River Project Seven 8’ weather balloons were released one at a time. They rose and became data points in the sky showing a mirror image of the depth of the water table in Tucson at 10-yr intervals. It dropped 155 ft. in 70 years! Photo: Tim Fuller The Rillito River Project Ellen Skotheim (Creative...
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Four monuments stand alongside Catalina Highway as it leads up toward the Santa Catalina mountains. The mountain range has been named and renamed as different populations came to live in the Tucson valley. Babad Do’ag – Frog Mountain (Tohono O’odham – Native American) ⇓ Canyon tree frogs in Sabino Canyon look so much like the local granite,...
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The park faces the Rillito River, and beyond it, the Catalina Mountains. The lower range of the Catalinas is made of a beautiful type of rock with black and white stripes. ⇓ Geologists say it was formed 25 million years ago when two types of granite were combined, blended, and “stretched like taffy” during the up-thrust of the mountains. They call it...
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An arch over the walking path of a new linear park frames the view of Spud Rock in the Rincon Mountains ahead. The figures come from a large Hohokam clay pot that was used in ceremonies about 1000 years ago. Joining hands, they encircle the ancient vessel, an emblem of communal life. And now they span the path of this park, which is part of a network of parks that will...
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