End Of The Trail   Leave a comment

End of Blackett’s Ridge Trail — Image by kenne

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail.
Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

— Louis L’Amour

Show Us Your Tits   Leave a comment

Show Us Your Tits — Image by kenne

Texas Ice House Blues

The year was 2007
The place was Drifter’s
In deep east Texas.

A Sunday afternoon
Where Mean Gene’s blues
Energized the crowd.

The sun and humidity
Kept the iced beer flowing
On this mid-summer day

Never underestimate
The power of the blues
Penetrating the piney woods

Bodies jiving to the music
Tits start popping out if
Only for a brief moment.

— kenne

Abstract Art   Leave a comment

Abstract Art by kenne

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
Abstract art will have been good for one thing:
to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

— Salvador Dali

 

We All Depend Upon Each Other   2 comments

Desert Walk — Image by kenne

We all depend upon each other, plants, and animals, not to mention the life-bestowing conglomerates:
Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. Every living person is part of a give-and-take network that entails considerable suffering
as well as joy. This largely mysterious ambiance constitutes nature as experienced by—and affected by—you and me.

— Alexander Eliot

Here Comes The Sun   Leave a comment

Cactus Blooms In The Morning Sun On Our Patio — Image by kenne

Sedona Tourists   1 comment

Sedona Tourists — Image by kenne

Intolerance is the father of illusion and evil deeds.
Tolerance is not its opposite; tolerance is neutral.
The opposite of intolerance is creative imagination,
sympathetically exercised in the service of ever-illusive truth.

— Alexander Eliot

Blue Abstract   3 comments

Abstract Art by kenne

A certain blue enters your soul

— Henri Matisse

 

Big Smile, Say Cheese   2 comments

Big Smile, Say Cheese (Red Rock Canyon) — Image by kenne

“Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing,
it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.”

— from Who Moved The Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

 

Breaking With Tradition   Leave a comment

Nags Head Outer Banks, NC — Image by kenne

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.


— James Agee

A Light Exists In Spring   Leave a comment

Saguaro Family — Image by kenne

A Light Exists In Spring

A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period —
When March is scarcely here

A Color stands abroad
On Solitary Fields
That Science cannot overtake
But Human Nature feels.

It waits upon the Lawn,
It shows the furthest Tree
Upon the furthest Slope you know
It almost speaks to you.

Then as Horizons step
Or Noons report away
Without the Formula of sound
It passes and we stay —

A quality of loss
Affecting our Content
As Trade had suddenly encroached
Upon a Sacrament.

— Emily Dickinson

 

Saguaro Sunrise   1 comment

Saguaro Sunrise — Image by kenne

In the morning sun

A tall cactus guardian

Shadows over me.

— kenne

 

It’s Breakfast Time In The Desert   4 comments

White-winged Dove Eating Saguaro Fruit — Image by kenne

Nobody is around.

The desert is quiet,

so tell me, what’s

on your mind?

Use the words

to begin a poem.

— kenne

What’s The Word?   Leave a comment

Curve-billed Thrasher — Image by kenne

For a while I could not remember some word

      I was in need of,

and I was bereaved and said: where are you,

      beloved friend?

— Mary Oliver

It Seemed A Better Way   2 comments

Photo-artistry by kenne

It seemed the better way
When first I heard him speak
Now it’s much too late
To turn the other cheek

Sounded like the truth
Seemed the better way
Sounded like the truth
But it’s not the truth today

— from It Seemed the Better Way by Leonard Cohen

Drinks and Conversation   2 comments

Drinks and Conversations at the Corner Pub — Photo-artistry by kenne (2005)

in the shadow of the rose

 
 

branching out, grubbing down,

taking stairways down to hell,

reestablishing the vanishing

point, trying a different

bat, a different stance,

altering diet and manner of

walking, readjusting the

system, photographing your

dinosaur dream,

driving your machine with

more grace and care,

noticing the flowers talking

to you,

realizing the gigantic agony

of the terrapin,

you pray for rain like an

Indian,

slide a fresh clip into the

automatic,

turn out the lights and

wait.

 
— Charles Bukowski