The Bluff Trail In Sabino Canyon — Panorama by kenne
The bluff trail runs a short distance from Sabino Canyon Road to Sabino Creek.
Archive for December 2020
Winter In The Canyon 3 comments
The Greatest Gift 1 comment
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Our Life With Kiko Leave a comment
Over the years, Joy and I have two cats. As fate would have it, they both passed away in December. — kenne
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A Christmas Family Album 12 comments
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Christmas Over The Last Couple of Decades — Images by kenne
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Christmas For Two 10 comments
Christmas Eve 2020 Sunset (Tucson) — Images by kenne
Christmas for two
2010 was our first
Christmas in Tucson
we spent it together
hiking nearby trails
swimming in the pool
enjoying our new desert life.
over the years, we traveled
each Christmas
spending time with family
now ten years out
the curse of COVID
has limited our travels
we are together again
on Christmas Eve watching
another beautiful sunset
we miss not being
with family and friends
a price for the future
— kenne
“Spinning Song” — A Love Song
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The Transformative Power of Music 1 comment
In this time of peace and love, I share this posting from December 23, 2009. PEACE!– kenne
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Greater Roadrunner Up A Tree 5 comments
Greater Roadrunner Up A Tree — Image by kenne
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Poinsettia Leaves 2 comments
Poinsettia Leaves — Image by kenne
leaves of red and green
with candles and figurines
decorate our home
— kenne
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Playlist 3 2 comments
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The Year Of The Bighorn Fire 2 comments
The Year of the Bighorn Fire and COVID In the Santa Catalina Mountains — Photo-Artistry by kenne
our bad year that was
air filled with smoke and virus
one gone one here
— kenne
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Christmas Through The Looking Glass 1 comment
Photo-Artistry by kenne
An image created
from a reflection;
therefore,
it’s an illusion.
One might say it’s
symbolic of Christmas.
Of course, one might say
that’s true of life —
the opposite of
what is expected.
— kenne
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So the shortest day came . . . 3 comments
Solstice Sunset — Image by kenne
So the shortest day came, and the year died,
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive,
And when the new year’s sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, reveling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us—Listen!!
All the long echoes sing the same delight,
This shortest day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.
Welcome Yule!
— Susan Cooper
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Morning Reflection 4 comments
Morning Reflection (Mammoth Lakes, California)– Image by kenne
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Cactus Wren In Sabino Canyon Leave a comment
Cactus Wren In Sabino Canyon — Image by kenne
The male cactus wren
to attract the female
will build two or more
nest, usually in the cholla
still, he may not be able
to allure her affection.
— kenne
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The Shortest Day Leave a comment
Hunters in the Snow– painting by Pieter Bruegel the Eider
As we experience the shortest day of the year, Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s painting, “Hunters in the Snow,” is an almost perfect picture of the contrasting scenes we experience this time of year, depicting isolation and melancholy producing a sense that we are being pulled into a silent landscape where the deep drifts of snow where you can “feel the cold and sense the audible dullness as the landscape sucks the sound from every little human vignette.”
His paintings are beautiful because his compositions make one of the opposites, based on Eli Siegel’s principle of aesthetic realism: “All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making of one of the opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.”
opposites are one
composing yesteryear’s coldness
stretching through time
standing still in the moment
searching the unrestricted
working with opposites
reassuring in sameness
emphasizing divergence
promising order
pleasing to self
— kenne
