Archive for December 2020

Running From Daimons   Leave a comment

Running From Daimons — Grunge Art by kenne

What marks upon the yielding clay? Two marks
Made by my feet, two by my daimon’s feet
But all confused because my marks and his
Are on the selfsame spot, his toes
Where my heels fell, for he and I
Pausing a moment in our headlong flight
Face opposite ways, my future being his past.

— from Images by W. B Yates

Paulo Still Life   1 comment

Paulo Still Life — Photo-Artistry by kenne

 Nōtan (濃淡)

winter’s sun
casts long shadows
on the shortest day
creating contrasting
values of shape
between objects
and the wall

in turn capturing
my eye
as darkness wins

— kenne

(Nōtan (濃淡) is a Japanese word, meaning dark-light, there is no English language equivalent.
It embodies an ancient Eastern concept, in which all things exist as inseparable and in perfect harmony.)

 

Happy Valley Saddle   Leave a comment

Hidden Pasture Trail In The Rincon Mountains — Panorama by kenne

Hidden Pasture Trail is a 6.8 mile lightly trafficked out and back trail located off of Mescal Road
on the eastern side of the Rincon Mountains in the Little Rincons.
Hiking to Hidden Pasture provides great Rincon Peak vistas to the west.

— kenne

4th Avenue Winter Street Fair   Leave a comment

The year 2020 will be remembered for the many annual events that have been canceled. In our ten years here in Tucson, we have always gone to the 4th Avenue Street Fair. In lieu of not having photos from this year’s non-event, this is a reblog from December 12, 2010. Yes, for the non-believers, we have now been here for ten years. — kenne

Posted December 19, 2020 by kenneturner in Information

Winter In The Canyon   1 comment

White-crowned Sparrow In Sabino Canyon — Image by kenne

some leaves have fallen

from the desert mesquite

sparrows sun at top

— kenne

Somewhere Down The Trail   Leave a comment

Starpass Trail — Image by kenne

On December 10th, I posted this image in color. Using Photoshop,
this is my black and white take of the original image taken December 17, 2012
while hiking in the Tucson Mountains.

— kenne

Grantham New Hampshire Snow Fall   1 comment

Images by Kate Turner Bailey

Daughter Kate and her family live on 17 acres in Grantham, New Hampshire. Getting snow in the winter is not unusual; three feet of the white stuff is unusual. You can see an animal path leading down to the brook and across it if you look carefully.

These images are the morning after the winter storm. The day before, Kate texted the following video.

— kenne

 

In care you are wonder, the chicken are fine — all fluffy with plenty of food and water.

 

The Secret Place Where Lovers Meet   Leave a comment

Alamos Stairway — Image by kenne

“Mine the long night
The secret place
Where lovers meet
In long embrace
In purple dark
In silvered kiss
Forget the world
And grasp your bliss”

― A.S. Byatt, Possession

Artist In The Field   Leave a comment

Artist In The Field — Photo-Artistry by kenne

“As the poets and painters of centuries have tried to tell us, art is not about the expression
of talent or the making of pretty things. It is about the preservation and containment of soul.
It is about arresting life and making it available for contemplation. Art captures the eternal
in the everyday, and it is the eternal that feeds soul—the whole world in a grain of sand. Leonardo”

— Thomas Moore (Care of The Soul)

 

Some Flowers For Your Day   Leave a comment

Arizona Beggarticks Wildflowers — Image by kenne

Flower Gathering 

I left you in the morning, 
And in the morning glow 
You walked a way beside me
To make me sad to go.
Do you know me in the gloaming,
Gaunt and dusty gray with roaming?
Are you dumb because you know me not,
Or dumb because you know?

All for me? And not a question
For the faded flowers gay
That could take me from beside you
For the ages of a day?
They are yours, and be the measure
Of their worth for you to treasure, 
The measure of the little while
That I’ve been long away.

— Robert Frost

Mexican Fruit Stand   2 comments

Mexican Fruit Stand — Image by kenne

    No one eats oranges
in the full moon’s light.
Fruit must be eaten
green and ice-cold.

    At the rise of the moon
with its hundred faces alike,
silver coins
sob away in pockets.

— from The Moon Appears by Federico García Lorca

Posted December 17, 2020 by kenneturner in Information

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Returning the ‘three sisters’ – corn, beans and squash – to Native American farms nourishes people, land and cultures   1 comment

As Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists (SCVN), we offer elementary school teachers six programs to choose from when they bring their students to the canyon. One of the programs, ‘Back To The Past,’ is about how the Hohokam could survive in the Tucson basin over 1000 years ago. Students learn about the ‘three sisters,’ corn, beans, and squash.

Posted December 16, 2020 by kenneturner in Information

Doctor   1 comment

Every woman that holds an advanced degree earned it. And deserves to be called ‘Doctor.’ — kenne

Posted December 16, 2020 by kenneturner in Information

Christmas Cactus Blossom   1 comment

Christmas Cactus Blossom — Photo-Artistry by kenne

almost like clockwork

the blossoms start appearing

each Christmas season

— kenne

Jamming In East Texas   Leave a comment

Blues Musicians Jamming In East Texas — Image by kenne

Texas musicians

downhome in the piney woods

living out the blues

— kenne