A Desert Shower — Image by kenne
Because of a little above average annual rainfall, the desert is very green. This shower was part of 1.4 inches in the last 36 hours — loving it!
–kenne
Archive for October 2015
A Desert Shower 1 comment
Early morning bluebird 2 comments
Waiting for the bluebirds to arrive in the desert.
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Grunge Art Desert Landscape 2 comments
Grunge Art Desert Landscape — Image by kenne
“Beyond the wall of the unreal city … there is another world waiting for you. It is the old true world of the deserts, the mountains, the forests, the islands, the shores, the open plains. Go there. Be there. Walk gently and quietly deep within it. And then —
May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God’s dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night.”
― Edward Abbey
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“Roses” — Abstract Art 1 comment
“Roses” — Abstract Art by kenne
(You distant, dim unknown—or young or old—countless, un-
specified, readers belov’d,
We never met, and ne’er shall meet—and yet our souls embrace,
long, close and long;)
— from “Thanks In Old Age” by Walt Whitman
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Japanese Garden Pagoda 2 comments
Japanese Garden Pagoda — Image by kenne
“What we see as death, empty space,
or nothingness is only the trough between the crests
of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion
that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future,
and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it.
Yet just as there is no time but the present,
and no one except the all-and-everything,
there is never anything to be gained—
though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.”
— Alan Watts
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A Head Adorned 2 comments
First posted November, 2011
Image by kenne
cold is the sky
among close friends
inspire with awe
yet cast in doubt
at the new do
looks like a crown
tower of strength
high in the sky
a crest of thorns
part of a hat
— kenne
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Hunter’s Moon Sets Over Tucson Leave a comment
Hunter’s Moon Sets Over Tucson (October 27, 2015) — Image by kenne
Autumn Sky
Downward waft the autumn leaves;
The hunters’ moon’s on high
Cetus Swims the starry deep
Cepheus rules the sky.
Rulest I said, well maybe so,
But what of Aries, Perseus, Fomalhaut?
Andromeda and others too,
Lend their light to grace the blue.
I love them all, I wish they’d stay
But like the leaves they’ll drift away.
— G. O. Pitcovich
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Greater Roadrunner — “So Shall His Life Be Taken Away” 1 comment
Greater Roadrunner In A Mesquite Tree
Greater Roadrunner In A Mesquite Tree
Greater Roadrunner at the End of Life — Images by kenne
There is no such thing as death.
In nature nothing dies.
From each sad remnant of decay,
some forms of life arise
so shall his life be taken away
before he knoweth that he hath it.
–Charles Mackay
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Not Just Another Sunset! 1 comment
“Not Just Another Sunset!” — Image by kenne
“The meaning of life is just to be alive.
It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.
And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic
as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
— Alan Watts
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Hiking The Phoneline Trail Leave a comment
After spending most of the summer and early autumn at higher elevations in the Santa Catalina Mountains, this past Friday SCVN led their first Friday hike in Sabino Canyon and were welcomed with beautiful fall weather. The hike was to have been to Seven Falls, but because of high waters, the Phoneline Trail became the hike of choice.
View Up Into Sabino Canyon
Hikers On Phoneline Trail
Coming Upon Another Group of Hikers
Phoneline Trail
Phone Line Trail
A Rest Stop
Low Water Crossing
Low Water Crossing
View Toward the Tucson Basin
Phil Bentley Playing His Harp
Hiking The Phoneline Trail (October 23, 2015) — Images by kenne
(Click on any image to see larger view in a larger view in a slideshow format.)
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Eyes Closed Creating A Zen Moment 1 comment
“A Zen Moment” — Computer Painting by kenne
Focusing
on the scene
I close my eyes
to what was there
now captured
in my mind’s eye
painting it with
my imagination —
taking a new course.
— kenne
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Succulents Afire — Abstract Art 1 comment
“Succulents Afire” — Abstract Art by kenne
“Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.”
— Philip Roth
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Unusual Prickly Pear Cactus Leave a comment
Prickly Pear — Image by kenne
This unusual growth on a prickly pear pad caught our attention while hiking in Sabino Canyon yesterday.
I tried researching it online and was not able determine the nature of this growth. Need to seek out a botanist for an explanation.
kenne
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Water Lily — Grunge Art Leave a comment
Water Lily — Grunge Art by kenne
“After all, works of art are always the result of one’s having been in danger,
of having gone through an experience all the way to the end,
to where no one can go any further. The further one goes, the more private,
the more personal, the more singular an experience becomes
and the thing one is making is, finally, the necessary, irrepressible,
and, as nearly as possible, definitive utterance of this singularity…”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Panorama — Tram Road In Sabino Canyon 1 comment
Tram Road In Sabino Canyon — Panorama by kenne
View from Phoneline Trail in Sabino Canyon looking toward the Visitor Center and Tucson.
