Speaker: Karen Naranjo
Have you been working all day at your computer? If so, it's clearly time to get outside. Get ready for a beautiful hike through the Arizona desert courtesy of Karen Naranjo, who has been with our club since 2004. Karen lives in the Phoenix area and will guide us through the land and flowers of her 'hood, aptly named "Paradise Valley."
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This week comments: 128, this week visitors: 86
Great meeting good information
thank you for this fantastic naranjoarizonaspring
reaaly beautifull
it reminds me so strong of my times in phoenix and around
a piece of saguaro cactus ,dry of course,is on my desk ,here in france,here,right now in from of me,next to my computer!!!!!!got it near tucson one day
and i re -read desert solitaire,beautiful book of Edward ABBEY...national arches monupent,..
thank you so much for reactivating my dreams..dream catcher..hopi..
I thought the program was very interesting. I learned about the various wildflowers and other plants in the Sonoran Desert. The pictures were beautiful and their descriptions were very informative.
I thought it a great program. I will be visiting Arizona soon so the info will be useful!
I enjoyed learning about desert vegetation. I live in the high desert, so our vegetation in slightly different. No sonorans here in New Mexico.
It's amazing what a little water will do in the desert. Good job.
Great float for next year's Rose Parade
Facinating meeting. Enjoyed the Karen's presentattion. I love the desert and she really reveled some of the reasons.
Great
Thank u Narajo, It was a wonderful tour, i felt like Iwas there walking
Wow, as a near 'bout east coast lifer, my idea of the desert tends to be based on old Westerns...this certainly changed all of that. Great pictures, great program.
The desert and its beauty is one of the main things I miss from AZ. Thanks Karen!
I had the good furtune of visiting Arizona twice this spring and saw the result of the wet winter. Beautiful landscape!
Beautiful photos and great content
My husband and I loved the your desert when we visited a few years ago. The picture in the program were beautiful. Elizabeth Niemi
Great presentation Karen.
Again another excellent meeting with lots of information and specially the news that E clubs will no longer be an experiment as of June 30. Thanks to the best E club for all of your hard work and bringing E clubs to full fledged club status!
Just finished working with my teenager on a school wildflower collection project, so I enjoyed the pictures.
I thoroughly enjoyed it, as usual. The fact that the wettest desert comes in at 6 inches a year was a surprise. At my home here in Hawaii we get 110 inches on average per year.
Mahalo!
Beautiful pictures.
Loved the photos!
Here's a bit of trivia about the Sonoran desert: it has the greatest variety of plant life of any desert on the planet. So many people think of deserts as boring with few plants, not the Sonoran! It is truly beautiful at almost any time of year.
My first eCLUB meeting. Very impressed! I love the quotes and international updates. Proud to be part of such an ambivelent group of individuals who provide so much goodwill each and every day...
WOW. I live in LV and wold love to see thenon prickly onesin my ackyard. My dog would no doubt get stickers in his fur.
As to the Float. We will have 7 riders dressed in their "native historical" costume and outwalkers. All showing off even more countries. YAY ROTARY
Very informative. I enjoyed Eileen Schioppa's entry on character. I believe one must develop core values if one is too develop character.
Great info. The Sgt At Arms Minute re Character was especially meaningful
this was a very special one, I enjoyed it a lot, specially while reading about the nice comments of my friends in Monterrey and what was written about character
this was a very special one, I enjoyed it a lot, specially while reading about the nice comments of my friends in Monterrey and what was written about character
I have enjoyed my two visits to this site. I would like to continue to visit.
I enjoyed the program by Karen Naranjo and the beauty of the desert in the Arizona area.
Sounds like a busy club with all the projects that the members are involved with.
Nice to have your 7 members from Monterey, this is definitely an advantage of an eClub.
The president spoke about the eClubs possibly ending on June 30, however they became a permanent part of RI on April 26 by a vote of approval of the Council of Legislation.
I also enjoyed the sneak peek at the RI float that will be in the Rose Parade in Pasadena on New Years Day.
thanks for the interesting program!
Good info.
Beautiful pictures and great info - I need to take more time to enjoy the beauty all around me!
Thank you so much for the field trip into the beautiful Sonoran desert. I have tears in my eyes from missing my beloved desert I called home for 53 out of my 57 years. I did not need a make up, but visited because I enjoy this erotary group so much.
Thanks, Robin
Juneau Gastineau Rotary Club, Juneau Alaska
Beautiful program Karen. Arizona is a multifaceted environment. Many of us love the beauty, quietness & serenity of the desert and Karen has shown us why. She does have a beautiful home and yard. Mel and I live in the mountains at 6500 ft, a 3 hours drive north of Phoenix and the desert. It also has those tranquil qualities. We are still experiencing the quietness of snow. :0)
I am so excited about the COL voting last Monday. It is such a calculated risk to charter a club such as this one, but one that must be made. Thank you to all the Rotarians....those who are still with us and those who have moved on....who made it happen. It was worth the effort, Judy
Great program on the sonoran desert wildflowers. I never know there could be what was described as a wet desert. Thanks for sharing.
I enjoyed the photos and the walk through the desert. I also appreciated the definitions of character. Thomas Paine's quote was my favorite.
We are researching the concept of an online makeup meeting for our club. This research led me to your site. The informaiton was informative and well presented, including links to learn more. I found information on things I knew about but not in detail. Good job. I will visit in the future when I am out of town and unable to attend a meeting in person.
A very interesting walk! I spent four summers in Phoenix when I was a boy. My friends and I went out in the desert every morning, to catch lizards, not look at the flora. It was a blast. Thanks for bringing back some great memories and adding some new ones.
In the 30+ years I lived in Colorado, I visited Arizona many times, but never in the Spring. Thanks, Karen, for the wonderful flower tour. I was always faxcinated by the tiny, almost microscopic, wildflowers that bloomed on the high mountain meadows in Summer. I'm sure everyone enjoyed seeing the beautiful Sonoran desert.
Beautiful...absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!!
Thank you Karen for sharing the beauty of AZ with so many people.
Having been in Scottsdale in late March, the "desert" is wonderfully colorful this year. Beautiful photos of teh Sonoran desert.
Outstanding job Karen. Most people don't realize how beautiful the desert is especially after a rainy winter like we had this year.
What a great program! If the program was given in a regular meeting I'm sure the questions would have taken up an additional hour or more. Thanks, Again !
Great progam what beautiful sites
Karen, thank you very much for this program. It reminds me of the many times I've visited Scottsdale over the years to see family and brings back lots of happy memories.
I really enjoyed the quotes
I've always crossed AZ in the Summer. Never knew how beautiful the spring can be.
very good pictures!
4-29-2010Karen Naranjo’s “A Walk in the Desert” is actually a beautiful guidebook that visitors to various part of the Sonoran desert should carry with them on paper or electronically. She’s provided a wealth of information about the weather and flora of this great desert region and flavored her commentary with enough personal perspectives to make the whole experience more like a walk with a friend than a mere catalog of points of interest. Thank you, Brooks C. Sackett
A very informative presentation. I look forward to returning to visit Arizona with a new point of view!
THis was a n absolutly bearutiful program, this person is extrememly to live in the WEST, Arizona with multitudes of wildflowers Cassasi.Popcorn flowers on and on wildflowers. The mystery of the beautiful varied and some oddly rangie Cacti. storing water and putting it to human and animal need, BUt the beauty if all this wonder and to live there in the ruged desert is truly a great gift. Thank you so much for this glimps into this rugged but amazing place!
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I have visited Arizona many times and never experienced many of the wildflowers in the program. Thanks for bringing them to us.
I love the partnership with Mexico! You guys are really doing some great work, and the members of that club can be proud of some significant accomplishments indeed!
Lovely photos. I"m enjoying the wildflowers in Texas, too. They're especially beautiful this year.
Thanks for allowing me to participate. Best wishes for success!
Very good meeting. Good organization.
Interesting facts about the Arizona desert in Springtime.
Very beautiful presentation of the desert and intrquing it can be
Excellent program on the Sonora desert, many intresting flowers and cacti.
Fantastic photos and a wonderful trip back home for this Arizona gal. Enjoyed having the complete meeting on line, as well as just the program. That gives a persion more of a sense of the club operations.
Thanks again for the opportunity to do this e-mail Meeting make up. PB
Thanks again for the opportunity to do this e-mail Meeting make up. PB
very impressed with all the good work and eye surgeries
The photography was incredible.
The RYLA presentation was so informative and it presents young adults in such a positive postion in the community for others. T. Murphy
I was impressed with the Haitian relief help efforts. Great job! After going through the presentation by Karen Naranjo I realized that I don't take enough time to enjoy the beautiful desert environment that we call home.
This is a very informational program format. It was very detailed and a valuable tool for Rotarians.
I hope Rotary will continue to recognize E-Clubs as they are very beneficial in making up meetings, especially when a person travel extensively. Also the program on the Sonoran Desert was very informative regarding the plant life and characteristics of the desert. It makes you more aware of our great country.
While in college I had several botany courses and hiked around many areas of California, Oregon and Arizona looking and collecting various wild plants. It is always a beautiful sight to see them blossom out in the spring.
I had no idea Karen lived in PV. I don't live very far from there, and always hike my dogs around these flowers!
Beautiful program. Wild Flowers in the desert are so unique and the contrast between their beauty and the harshness of where they live, breath taking.
Wonderful pictures and a good lesson about the unusual wildflowers and geography
I think the work being done in Mexico is wonderful!
Karen, I am a wildflower nut and your program makes me want to visit the Park. Thanks for the interesting program.
Congratulation to all,
All the members of the “Monterrey Group” invited and leaded by Raul Herrera that met Frank Longoria in a Rotary Conference of the 4130 District, invited all of us to join this E-Club, as new members we didn’t knew who, were, when and how? This kind of Rotary Club was born and now how is growing and consolidating.
So “Honor who Honor Deserves”, to you Larry and all the Rotarians that after 100 year are updating this wonderful association.
In the name of all the members of the “Monterrey Group” we want to congratulate all of you and all of us for what happened today.
Yours in Service Without Borders.
Victor
A nother good one
Great news on the eClub being approved,it is big part of my week to enjoy our meetings here iin the Outback of Australia.
Good to read that Raul has volenteered for Foundation Chair for next year.
Another win for our eClub " Working groups "well done to our New Members from Mexico.
Good meeting Karen,Arizona a little like our part of the world 6 to 8 inches of rain,and beautful wild flowers when we get good seasons.
I appreciate the comments you've posted for our group and we reiterate that we are eager to add more Rotarians without clubs on land, . It would be great that other groups were formed in other countries as you suggested, through the promotion by the members of this great E-Club. in each of their cities.
Thanks Karen for this tour and the wonderful pictures
Congratulations and a hug for Roberto Garcia
How wonderful for one of our members to show other members who live around the world how beautiful our Sonoran desert really is. There are still people who think the Arizona desert is nothing but sand dunes. My son owns a jeep touring company, and I had the pleasure of touring a wonderful, quiet area of our desert a week ago. It was in full bloom and there was scarcely a bare spot of ground without some kind of growth. Thanks, Karen!
Our speaker Karen Naranjo gives us a fascinating and colorful tour of the beautiful flora in the Sonoran Desert, the largest of North America's four deserts. Receiving only six inches of average annual rainfall, the Sonoran has neverthe less spawned a wonderful array of plants, such as the Triangle Bur Ragweed, the Desert Wishbone Bush, a remarkable diversity of beautiful flowers and the "famous Saguaro cactus", the latter which can live 150 years and weigh up to ten tons. The Sonoran is also home to the South Mountain Preserve, reputedly "North America's largest municipal park". Online Rotarians know that the Sonoran's greatest flower is the Rotary E-Club of the Southwest USA, which was born amidst all this natural beauty. Excellent program!
What a great club. I enjoyed reading everything about the club and it accomplishments and I really enjoyed the Program on the Sonora Desert.
I will be making up again.
Spectacular array of flowers found in the desert of Arizona! Thank you...
Great photos and wonderful tidbits - love the plant names!
First time to visit your website. Thanks for the convenience of making up online.
Karen, I remember well the desert when Anne and I lived in that region (Phoenix) in the 1960s. It is beautiful and not deserted. Thank you for this lovely reminder.
I want to inform you that recently there is a partner income, Roberto Garcia Monterrey City, Mexico, and their birthday is this day April 26. Can compliment via e-mail.
Fascinating photos -- beautiful landscape in such a harsh climate. Thanks for sharing.
Great information. I look forward to getting more involved.
In Fresno, CA today.
Larry, acording to our 'scape' conversation I want to tell you that we add are very pleased for your invitation to colaborate with de next administration of the E-Club, and personally I am honored to be able to do it in the Rotary Fundation.
eClubs are definitely a lifesaver for Rotarians who are frequently traveling. I have visited several sites and have found yours to be one of the most informational.
It was definitely refreshing and encouraging to hear about the smaller "micro clubs" that doing wonderful deeds in the name of and have joined forces with your Rotary Club. While we cannot all make a weekly meeting; it's great to be able to communicate with fellow Rotarians on their efforts to make the world a better place. Thanks!
Wonderful pictures of the Arizona desert. This has certainly been the year for wildflowers as we have enjoyed tons and tons of wildflowers in the Texas Hill Country Region. Good job, Karen!
Thanks Karen! I've also been enjoying our local desert before the summer heat arrives.
This is my first visit and as a new member or rotary and as a business owner I can say that I hope the e meeting continues to be available for "make up". Committing to a once a week meeting is huge, if we can't make a meeting we need a quick easy way to make up for it. When time is scarce but our committment to the club remains we need an option.
Good to know about all these activities.
Wonderful program. Reminds me to suit up and head for Pueblo Mountain Park this weekend. Not the Sonora, but still lovely.
Brings back memories of when I was young and our family had land in Arizona!
Hi
Just wonder if there is any other way to contribute other than paypal or cheque? VISA would be nice - for those of us who live in cpountries where paypal does not set up accounts and cheques to the USA would take forever to mail and forever to clear.
Otherwise this was a grest program as always - I feel as if I took a short holiday in Paradise Valley - and as I am preparing for a stresful meeting - that was great.
I am also excited by working groups - as I mentioned there are many former rotaract club members who have not joined rotary in kenya and we could form our working group here!
Have a nice week everyone
Regards
Elizabeth
