Sunset Computer Paintings by kenne
Archive for February 2015
Three Sunset Images 4 comments
Morning Hike In Picacho Peak State Park 1 comment
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Morning Hike In Picacho Peak State Park (February 26, 2015) — Images by kenne
One of the best places to see spring wildflowers in southern Arizona is at Picacho Peak State Park, so early yesterday morning Tom Markey and I drove up I-10 for an hour to the park, not to hike to the top of the peak, but to hike the west trail to observe and photograph the wildflowers. The rains this winter have not only produced beautiful wildflowers, but made the desert very green, which adds contrast to the views. This posting is meant to give you a feel for our hiking into the sun on the backside of Picacho Peak setting the stage for wildflower photos to be posted later.
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Misty Morning In Sabino Canyon 2 comments
Sabino Canyon Visitors Center (February 24, 2015)
Brittlebush Blooming in Sabino Canyon (February 24, 2015) — Images by kenne
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A Blast From The Past 3 comments
“A Blast From The Past” Ken & Mary’s Blues Project, December 2003 — Image by kenne
Sadly, several of those playing in this Ken & Mary’s Blues Project house concert are no longer with us — those were the days with some of the best blues ever coming out of east Texas.
In the piney woods
Rhythm and lots of the blues
Jamming through the night.
kenne
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A Rodeo Moment 2 comments
Tucson Rodeo Bull Riding — Image by kenne
In rodeo riding,
time is defined
in two words —
start, finish.
In life,
time is also defined
in two words —
hello, goodbye.
— kenne
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Morning Social In The Canyon 2 comments
Cedar Waxwing Computer Painting my kenne
This group of very social Cedar Waxwings were photographed yesterday morning (February 24, 2015) in lower Sabino Canyon after an early morning rain. Click on any of the gallery images to see a larger view in a slideshow format.
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Rillito Park Race Track II 2 comments
Rillito Park Race Track II, Tucson — Images by kenne
“He’s of the colour of the nutmeg.
And of the heat of the ginger…. he is pure air and fire;
and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him,
but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him;
he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.”
― William Shakespeare, Henry V
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Rillito Park Race Track, Tucson, Arizona — Computer Painting by kenne
The race is not always to the swift,
nor the battle to the strong,
but that’s the way to bet.
— Damon Runyon
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Coral Bean Legume Pods 1 comment
Coral Bean (Erythrina herbacea) Legume Pods Image by kenne
All parts of the coral bean plant are poisonous, but the red beans, which is how the plant gets its name, are by far the most highly toxic. This plant contains Erythrina alkaloids, which include the curare-like beta-erythroidine. This plant is common to many of the mountain foothills surrounding Tucson. These pods were photographed in the Maiden Pools area of Ventana Canyon, February 20, 2015.
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Capturing The Moment — Ragged Rock Flowers 3 comments
Ragged Rock Flowers (February 20, 2015) — Images by kenne
This beautiful flower grows on a scrub that is generally found growing out of cracks in cliff rocks often near canyon streams. The flower blossom looks somewhat like a citrus blossom and even has somewhat of a citrus smell. The seeds of the plant are rich in oils love by ants, which leads to a theory why the seeds end up in the cracks of rocks. The cast-off seeds sometimes land in cracks where germination takes place.
kenne
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It’s Rodeo Time In The Sonoran Desert 1 comment
La Fiesta de los Vaqueros — Tucson Rodeo Image by kenne
THE ILLUSORY WORLD
Sage
This world is but a winery,
Its host and master Father Time,
Who caters only to those steep’d
In dreams discordant, without rhyme.
For people drink and race as though
They were the steeds of mad desire;
Thus some are blatant when they pray,
And others frenzied to acquire.
Few on this earth who savor life,
And are not bor’d by its free gifts;
or divert not its streams to cups
In which their fancy floats and drifts.
Should you then find a sober soul
Amidst the state of revelry,
Marvel how a moon did find
In this rain cloud a canopy.
— Kahlil Gibran
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Drinking The Ancient Medicine 1 comment
Sunset Over The Tucson Mountains — Image by kenne
My home is in the foothills,
Down near the wash
Where water flows
When it rains in the mountains.
Each day I watch the sunset
Gone, a million thoughts
Now traveling through the galaxies
Leaving nature’s priceless treasure.
It is not a thing, yet it is before me
Only to be concealed by shadows
Walking across the mountains
Sinking deeply into earth’s flesh.
I live in the foothills,
Now five winters, where each night
I’m happy resting among the stars
Drinking the ancient medicine.
— kenne
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Ventana Canyon Hikers On Canvas by kenne
Ventana Canyon On Canvas by kenne
Sing and dance and be joyous,
but let each one also be alone.
Even as the strings of the lute are alone,
through they quiver to the same music.
— Kahlil Gibran
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Agave Squeeze: Life In A Split-Rock Crack (February 20, 2015) — Image by kenne
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Desert Globemallow Wildflower 1 comment
Desert Globemallow Wildflower (February 13, 2015) — Image by kenne
