BearAss — Photo-Artistry by kenne
BearAss
She had tattoos
Tattoos on her ass.
Not just any tattoos,
But bear paws —
No sign of claws.
— kenne
Archive for July 2019
BearAss 2 comments
She had tattoos
Capturing The Moment — A Sublime Photo Collage, “The Spontaneous Overflow Of Powerful Feelings” Leave a comment
First posted July 31, 2014.
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Voiceless Wailing Leave a comment
Voiceless Wailing — Photo-Artistry by kenne
There is no end of it, the voiceless wailing,
No end to the withering of withered flowers,
To the movement of pain that is painless and motionless,
To the drift of the sea and the drifting wreckage, . . .
— T. S. Eliot
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Texas Crescent Butterfly Leave a comment
Texas Crescent Butterfly — Image by kenne
“Just living is not enough,” said the butterfly,
“one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.”
— Hans Christian Andersen
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Monsoon Storms Build In The Desert Leave a comment
Hoping the next few days the monsoon will take off like it did July 2011. — kenne
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Foggy Morning In New Orleans 3 comments
Foggy Morning In New Orleans (December 2014) — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Beauty in the Rain
If you fancy that you have an eye for beauty,
test it on a rainy day…
A cold and foggy day that wears no make-up.
Test it in the shades of gray
that consume the sun and rob the flowers of their colors,
leaving them forlorn in dingy places
like tired and aging ballerinas in faded dancing clothes;
huddling in the drafty wings of empty opera houses.
Gaze across the rooftops and the chimneys,
painted like Utrillo’s Paris
On the canvas of the smoke and fog
of a dying afternoon in winter.
It takes no eye for beauty
to find it on a lovely day.
It thrusts itself upon you
in the sunshine and the warm.
But it hides; becomes aloof, elusive
in the cold and in the rain.
— Jim Metcalf
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Once A Runner, Always A Runner 5 comments
Sprint for Life, May 2010 — Photo-Artistry by kenne
The last time I ran in Houston’s MD Anderson Cancer Center “Sprint for Life” fundraiser was May 2014. I ran the 5k in 30 minutes, coming third in the over 70 age group. For now, I have given up running, replacing it with walking and hiking. Whether I start running again or not, running will always be in my blood.
In case you are wondering, in the May 2010 run pictured above, I was 3rd in the 65-70 age group. Also, I no longer wear white crew socks!
— kenne
“Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.”
— Dean Karnazes
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We Know So Little About What We Are Putting On Our Bodies! Leave a comment
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Body and Soul — A Poem By Rich Levy, Revisited Leave a comment
Listen to the words and the music. — kenne
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“It was Just There” 1 comment
First posted July 28, 2014. — kenne
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Canyon View 3 comments
Canyon View — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“If all your life means to you is water running over rocks,
then photograph it,
but I want to create something that would not have existed
without me.”
— Minor White
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“Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.” 1 comment
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Balanced Rock 3 comments
Balanced Rock, Catalina Highway, Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne
“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”
— Alan Watts
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Jim Martin, In Loving Memory Of A Great Naturalist 1 comment
Jim and B.J. Martin, May 7, 2018 , were honored by achieving Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalist (SCVN) Emeritus Status.
— Image by kenne
I went to another funeral today, something I began doing at an early age while living with my grandparents. Old people’s friends die. Back then I didn’t always know the people and spent my time running around the graveyard across the road from the church with other children, in a small northeast Alabama rural town.
It’s different today being one of the old people whose friends are dying. When I became an SCVN member in 2011, Jim Martin had been an active member for 23 years, teaching elementary school children about nature and conservation, leading and participating in SCVN hikes, and serving a treasurer, VP, and President of SCVN. I first met Jim on one of the SCVN Friday Hikes. He was an 82-year-old active hiker, a quiet, pleasant guy to be around — always smiling!
Jim pasted away at the age of 90, July 16, 2019.
— kenne
