A Women Holds Her Dog Near The Grand Canyon’s Edge as a Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay Lands Nearby — kenne
She walks near the edge
Carries her dog for safety
Scrub-Jay lands nearby.
— kenne
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Walking Near The Edge Leave a comment
Three Little Guys Looking Up To The King Leave a comment
Three Little Guys Looking Up To The King — Image by kenne
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
— Lao Tzu
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Teenage Girls Enjoying Sabino Canyon Leave a comment
Girls In Sabino Canyon at the Dam — HDR Image by kenne
Class of teenage girls
Enjoy the canyon’s beauty
On a sunny day.
— kenne
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Arizona Sister Leave a comment
Arizona Sister — Image by kenne
Arizona girl
A large brown/black butterfly
Big sister to some.
— kenne
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Honey Bee On Arizona Fleabane — Digital Art Leave a comment
Honey Bee On Arizona Fleabane — Digital Art by kenne
my nature photos
masking layers of art filters
creating my art
digital painting
colors become transparent
blending together
i have become a
digital photo artist
uniting my hands
whatever my tools
technology empowers
the will and desire
i seek to be good
i seek to communicate
not to be perfect
i seek the duende
to find my kindred feelings
in all that i do
— kenne
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Cold Mountain Leave a comment
Snow On The Mountain — Image by kenne
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Men ask the way to Cold Mountain
Cold Mountain: there’s no through trail.
In summer, ice doesn’t melt
The rising sun blurs in swirling fog.
How did I make it?
My heart’s not the same as ypurs.
If your heart was like mine
You’d get it and be right here.
— from Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems by Gary Snyder
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Sandhill Cranes 6 comments
Sandhill Cranes Over Whitewater Draw — Image by kenne
After leaving at sunrise
to feed in the nearby fields
hundreds of cranes return
at mid-day, squawking in a
cacophony heard miles around.
It’s sunny with a few passing
clouds drifting overhead
in the distance
mountains rise above
the farm and ranch lands.
These big birds prefer
the shallow waters of the draw
where they stand protected
from predators who prefer
to stay out of the water.
Geese, ducks and other
waterfowl can be found
wintering here in southeast
Arizona attracting birders
with scopes and cameras.
I don’t see myself as a birder,
birders are strange
counting and taking notes
to be placed on eBird,
me, I just take photos.
Occasionally we make small talk
going through our social necessities
thinking about it or not thinking about it
walking freely on by not holding to the
moment so as not to remember.
— kenne
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Sedona Moonscape Leave a comment
Hot Air Balloons Over Sedona, Arizona Early Morning, June 2016 — Image by kenne
I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.
— Winnie the Pooh
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December Snow On Mt. Lemmon 2 comments
December 2011 Christmas Card Art — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Mt. Lemmon got some snow earlier this month, but nothing like December 2011. I timed it just right and was able to drive Catalina Highway
to capture some holiday snow photographs on the mountain. Click here to see some of the snow-covered images on Mt. Lemmon.
— kenne
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Winter Solstice, 2022 Leave a comment
Winter solstice 2022 in Northern Hemisphere will be at 2:47 PM on Wednesday, December 21 MST — Photo-Artistry by kenne
The waxing of the sun, that
moment of solstice when
everything is still,
everything is silent —
an exotic moment of being
with darkness
giving birth to light
to which we celebrate
the relationship,
the moment of being
in the birthplace of life.
— kenne
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The Christmas Cactus Is Out Of The Utility Room Leave a comment
Our Twelve-year-old Christmas Cactus Is Back On The Dining Room Table — Image by kenne
Like clockwork, our Christmas cactus has begun to bloom, which means it’s now out of the utility room
and will spend the Holidays in the dining room.
— kenne
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Desert Rosemallow Leave a comment
Desert Rosemallow In The Tucson Mountains — Image by kenne
Desert Rosemallow
This hibiscus wildflower
A southwest beauty.
— kenne
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Coming In For A Landing Leave a comment
Two Sandhill Cranes Coming In For A Landing At Whitewater Draw — Image by kenne
here for the winter
spend time before heading north
to begin again
— kenne
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Tucson Time Leave a comment
A Tucson Sunset — B&W by kenne
The power of stories
and sunsets become
daily escape hatches
from the tragic realities
of human existence.
— kenne
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Black Mountains Geological Contrasts Leave a comment
Black Mountains, Arizona Geological Contrasts — Image by kenne
I was standing on the highest mountain of them all,
and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world.
And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and
I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a
sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit,
and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops
that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight,
and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter
all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.
and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world.
And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and
I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a
sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit,
and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops
that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight,
and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter
all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.
— Black Elk
Becoming is Superior to Being 