Archive for the ‘Bees’ Category
Fiddleneck Wildflowers — Photo-Artistry by kenne
I dream of a quiet man
who explains nothing and defends
nothing, but only knows
where the rarest wildflowers
are blooming, and who goes,
and finds that he is smiling
not by his own will.
― Wendell Berry
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Fall In The Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne
“Live each season as it passes;
breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit,
and resign yourself to the influences of each.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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Bee On Blossom — Image by kenne
Bee on a blossom
A slight stirring in the breeze
Get it while you can.
— kenne
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“Bee On Yellow Flower” — Image by kenne
“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused,
the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels
that there is nothing ‘we’ can do — but who is that ‘we’? —
and nothing ‘they’ can do either — and who are ‘they’ —
then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.”
― from Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
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This summer, the Big Horn Fire caused so much damage to the National Forest
in the Santa Catalina Mountains remains closed to the public. Therefore,
hiking and photographing wildflowers in the Catalinas will not be in 2020,
which provides a good excuse to revisit some wildflower photos over the past ten summers.
Honeybee on Sneezeweed Blossom (07/30/14, Mt. Lemmon) — Image by kenne
WATERMARK
In every desert, travelers have dried up in the sun,
with shallow wells of water right below them.
perhaps they left too soon, too young, too desperate to run
towards something or away from something else.
Perhaps they hadn’t learned the way to read the tiny trails,
the watermarks remaining from a people who have gone,
whose hieroglyphs translate — in the direction is a spring
of sweet water. Look for it. Or is it, listen?
— Diane Thiel
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Bee On Santa Catalina Prairie Clover — Image by kenne
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Silverpuff Blossom and Honey Bee — Image by kenne
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Night Blooming Cereus — Images by Phil Bentley
One of the strangest plants of the desert, the night-blooming cereus, is a member 
of the cactus family that resembles nothing more than a dead bush most of the year.
It is rarely seen in the wild because of its inconspicuousness. But for one midsummer’s night each year,
its exquisitely scented flower opens as night falls, then closes forever with the first rays of the morning sun.
— Content Source: Desert USA
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Bees On Thistles — Photo Essay by kenne
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“Let’s Think Spring” — Image by kenne
Let’s think spring
Uplifting thoughts
Nature renewing
Time for growth
Taking long walks
Love in the air
Symbols of love
Feeling of joy
Coming together
Creating new life
— kenne
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Bee On A Poppy — Image by kenne
The pollinator
Makes it possible for plants
To make fruit and seeds.
— kenne
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Bee Inside Wildflower Blossom — Photo-Artistry by kenne
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There’s Got To Be Some Necter In Here Somewhere (New Mexico Thistle & Bee) — Image by kenne
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Brittle Bush Blossoms (Sabino Canyon Recreation Area) — Image by kenne
Signs of spring are here
Look around you will see it
Color it yellow.
— kenne
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